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Meaning overrun meaning

What does overrun mean?

overrun

— verb (= infest) invade in great numbers the roaches infested our kitchen — verb run beyond or past The plane overran the runway — verb seize the position of and defeat the Crusaders overran much of the Holy Land — verb (= run over) flow or run over (a limit or brim) — verb (= infest) occupy in large numbers or live on a host the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North — noun (= overproduction) too much production or more than expected

Synonyms overrun synonyms

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overrun English » English

invade overflow infest exceed raid trample down run over overstep oppress occupy whelm well over transgress take over surpass surmount run-out overwhelm overtop overproduction overcome inundate go beyond encroach brim over ultralimit tuck in travel transit transfinite transcend tramp top teem in take hold take stream stifle squat spread spill-out spill current span slopover shower seize seethe sack rush run-off

Topics overrun topics

What do people use overrun to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict

War
Physical actions Move Move toward something

Move past, over, through
States Time Relative time Right time

Late

Conjugation overrun conjugation

How do you conjugate overrun?

overrun · verb

Examples overrun examples

How do I use overrun in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The hospital is overrun.
The refugee camp is overrun.
The basement is overrun with rats.
The entire city is overrun by zombies.

Movie subtitles

The construction of a new wing along the Orfevres Dock had turned the Halls of Justice upside down - they were overrun by builders.
He's created a beautiful home in this paradise here. and I wouldn't want to see it overrun and destroyed.
We're not overrun by family and friends, so you could easily have found your way in through good.
How long between the time he went back and you got overrun?
Quick, before they overrun the courtyard.
They do say there's money buried around here on the grounds. at the time Grant overrun the country on the way to Vicksburg.
Commander, any time the Japanese are ready, they can overrun this island.
Last night they overrun Las Vegas.
While the Moors hold Valencia, Ben Yusuf can strike out fromthere and overrun all Spain.
And beyond the second floor, the house is overrun with spiders.
Unless Venice has been overrun by the French.
If you don't wish to see her humiliated and overrun by Frenchmen.
I am shocked, shocked, to find our state overrun by backstabbing Bolsheviki and Red rabble-rousers.
It'll overrun the building in time.
Why, this road is overrun with the worst bandits in Italy.
My hacienda is overrun with them.
The Sioux have overrun the North, beaten Crook and wiped out Custer.
Ben Yusuf can strike out from there, overrun all Spain.
The rísíng Seíne has overrun íts banks, floodíng out thousands of homes ín the low-lyíng areas.
Half of Europe has been overrun and occupied.
The camp is overrun with communists. It's high time you do something.
The castle's overrun with plumbers, the moat is leaking.
If they insist on our forces being withdrawn your friends will be at the mercy of terrible, powerful enemies with legitimate claims on their territory and enough arms to overrun them within a few days.
I'll overrun my engines to give us a few more seconds.
One hour ago, following an armed entry into West Berlin by Russian and East German troops, two NATO armoured divisions attempted to force an entry through to the city and were themselves overrun by outnumbering Communist forces.
First we knew the bastards had overrun us was when we tried to land.
We're being overrun.
Well, money, a woman, maybe a desire for revenge, let my boss be overrun by a car, that I can understand.
Why do you scare this people? - Come on, they have overrun half Europe, us - they will leave for seeds. - They can kiss my ass!
Then we will overrun the Muslims.
They'll be overrun anyway.
British radio claims the Germans have been overrun along a 60-mile front west of Kiev.
In Saigon the United States Embassy has been overrun by suicide squads.
Khe Sanh is standing by to be overrun.
The police department here is overrun with blacks.

News and current affairs

The global economy is overrun with such poisoned packages.
The frontal sectors, left almost unguarded, were largely overrun.
Realizing the increasingly sedentary nature of the guerrillas gave the government confidence that its threat to overrun the demilitarized zone would bring the FARC back to serious negotiations.
But they dare not overrun the open, commercial ethic of China's region-states--the source of their country's prosperity.
Imagine doctors at a perpetually overrun hospital refusing to perform triage on casualties, merely attending patients as they arrived and fast-tracking those whose families made the most fuss.
The big question for Europeans is whether they can find ways to exploit some of the efficiency gains embodied by the Wal-Mart model without being overrun by it.
If we do not want to be overrun by anonymous forces, the principles of freedom, equality and solidarity - the foundation of stability and prosperity in Western democracies - must start working globally.
Its air force was crippled and its army was virtually overrun, with Israel capturing the entire Sinai Peninsula.
Breaking the Gordian knot of climate negotiations requires offering technology and financial transfers in exchange for the ability to overrun a national budget.
But those tentative green shoots that we hear so much about these days may well be overrun by yellow weeds even in the medium term, heralding a weak global recovery over the next two years.
They were panicking in the hospital, overrun by cases on the verge of dying.
The most famous sections of the Great Wall of China were overrun within a few decades of their construction.

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