OVERRUN
overrun
Noun
- An instance of overrunning
- The amount by which something overruns
- ''At least this year's overrun isn't as unmanagable as last year!
Verb
- To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing his positions conclusively.
- To infest, swarm over, flow over.
- The vine overran its trellis; the field is overrun with weeds.
- To run past; to run beyond.
- The athlete overran the finish line and kept going.
- One line overruns another in length.
- To continue for too long.
- The performance overran by ten minutes, which caused some people to miss their bus home.
- To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
- To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
- In machinery, a sliding piece is said to overrun its bearing when its forward end goes beyond it.
- To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
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