Overrun

Quick meaning: Overrun is a verb meaning (transitive) To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.

Meaning

(transitive) To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To infest, swarm over, flow over.
2. (transitive) To run past; to run beyond.
3. (intransitive) To continue for too long.
4. (printing, transitive) To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
5. (transitive) To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
6. (transitive) To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
7. An instance of overrunning.

Example Sentences

One line overruns another in length.

those barbarous nations that over-ran the world

The athlete overran the finish line and kept going.

Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.

Word Forms

• overruns
• overrunning
• overran
• over-run

Synonyms for overrun

Depending on context, synonyms include stopway, troubled, overflow, infest, infested, plagued.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overproduction, overflow, plagued, troubled, infest, infested.

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