Definition of Overrun

Overrun

of Overrun

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.

To exceed in distance or speed of running; to go beyond or pass in running.

To go beyond; to extend in part beyond; as, one line overruns another in length.

To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.

To carry over, or back, as type, from one line or page into the next after, or next before.

To extend the contents of (a line, column, or page) into the next line, column, or page.

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

To extend beyond its due or desired length; as, a line, or advertisement, overruns.

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Overrun Quotations

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.
Bill Maher

All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
Sam Houston

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
Carl Bernstein

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.
Gianni Agnelli

The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood.
Junipero Serra

It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.
Caspar Weinberger

I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs.
William Joyce

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Overrun Translations

overrun in Spanish is exceder

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