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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Overrun \O'ver*run"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. {Overran}; p. p. {Overrun}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Overrunning}. ]
1. 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.
Those barbarous nations that overran the world. --Spenser.
2. To exceed in distance or speed of running; to go beyond or pass in running.
Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi. --2 Sam. xviii. 23.
3. To go beyond; to extend in part beyond; as, one line overruns another in length.
Note: In machinery, a sliding piece is said to overrun its bearing when its forward end goes beyond it.
4. To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
None of them the feeble overran. --Spenser.
5. (Print.) (a) To carry over, or back, as type, from one line or page into the next after, or next before. (b) To extend the contents of (a line, column, or page) into the next line, column, or page.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
overrun
adjective: (often followed by 'with' or used in combination) troubled by or encroached upon in large numbers; "waters infested with sharks"; "shark-infested waters"; "the locust-overrun countryside"; "drug-plagued streets" [syn: {infested}, {plagued}]
noun: too much production or more than expected [syn: {overproduction}]
verb
1: invade in great numbers; "the roaches infested our kitchen" [syn: {infest}]
2: occupy in large numbers or live on a host; "the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North" [syn: {invade}, {infest}]
3: flow or run over (a limit or brim) [syn: {overflow}, {well over}, {run over}, {brim over}]
4: seize the position of and defeat; "the Crusaders overran much of the Holy Land"
5: run beyond or past; "The plane overran the runway" [also: {overrunning}, {overran}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
overran See {overrun}
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