Lexic.us

Definition of Overrun

1. Verb. Invade in great numbers. "The roaches infested our kitchen"

2. Noun. Too much production or more than expected.

3. Verb. Occupy in large numbers or live on a host. "The Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North"

4. Verb. Flow or run over (a limit or brim).

5. Verb. Seize the position of and defeat. "The Crusaders overran much of the Holy Land"

6. Verb. Run beyond or past. "The plane overran the runway"

Definition of Overrun

1. v. t. To run over; to grow or spread over in excess; to invade and occupy; to take possession of; as, the vine overran its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass.

2. v. i. To run, pass, spread, or flow over or by something; to be beyond, or in excess.

Definition of Overrun

1. Verb. To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing his positions conclusively. ¹

2. Verb. To infest, swarm over, flow over ¹

3. Verb. To run past; exceed ¹

4. Verb. To continue for too long. ¹

5. Verb. To readjust by shifting the excess letter(s) to the next line of a set type ¹

6. Noun. An instance of overrunning ¹

7. Noun. The amount by which something overruns ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overrun

1. to spread or swarm over [v -RAN, -RUNNING, -RUNS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overrun

overrude overruff overruffed overruffing overruffs overrule overruled overruler overrulers overrules

overrulest overruleth overruling overrulingly overrulings overrun (current term) overrunner overrunners overrunneth overrunning

overruns overs oversad oversaid oversail oversails oversale oversales oversalt oversalted

Literary usage of Overrun

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Democracy in Europe: A History by Thomas Erskine May (1877)
"Switzerland overrun by Northern races. 409 Ar>. 450 AI>. 500-936 An Feudalism <-stal>- lished. Straitened within their rocky fortresses, they made a descent ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"The Germans overrun Gaul.—Usurpation of Constantino in the West.—Disgrace and Death of Stilicho. IF the subjects of Kome could be ignorant of their ..."

3. The American Revolution by John Fiske (1891)
"... of South Carolina, in May, 1780, serious as it was, did not so obviously imperil the whole American cause. Ihe blow did not come at quite im» overrun ..."

4. The American Revolution by John Fiske (1896)
"... British regulars from General Augustine Prevost's force in Florida, invaded the rice plantations of Georgia, burning and Georgia overrun by the British ..."

5. Annual Report by Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station (1907)
"The mixed cream gave an overrun of 10.19 per cent, that of number one gave ... Number two cream produced an overrun of only 4.86 and 7.54 per cent where ..."

6. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1843)
"... went into the Hellespont with seventy-three galleys, besides sixteen which the same summer were gone into the Hellespont before, and had overrun parti ..."

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