[
US
/ˈoʊvɝˌɹən/
]
VERB
- flow or run over (a limit or brim)
-
invade in great numbers
the roaches infested our kitchen -
seize the position of and defeat
the Crusaders overran much of the Holy Land -
occupy in large numbers or live on a host
the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North -
run beyond or past
The plane overran the runway
NOUN
- too much production or more than expected
How To Use overrun In A Sentence
- It is a well-known fact that our cities are being overrun by foxes. Times, Sunday Times
- The residents have been overrun with the lop-eared rodents residing in the parklands and King George Park.
- So a relatively high price assures that the place will not be overrun by beer drinking mobs and niggards like other places.
- Six days later the health board announced that because of cost overruns clinical and support staff were to be sacked.
- As the slope steepens, warm, moist air overrunning the cold air is cut off and the precipitation coverage begins to rapidly decrease.
- Ancient Egypt declined, was overrun and thereafter ruled by foreign powers.
- The bright-hammered melody of the flat-crank 4.5-liter V8, the fiery spall of the overrun note, the tach-rapping flexibility of the 9,000-rpm engine as you gear-bang the seven-speed dual clutch tranny—all of that is at a slight remove in the fixed-roof car. Ferrari 458 Italia Loses Its Top, Gains Hugely
- There was a ‘resistance to creating documents that would prove cost overruns or really inflated charges,’ she said.
- Tribes of these red-bottomed monkeys regularly overrun government office compounds.
- The issue arose in delegations due to rumors that the town was planning to raise taxes to pay for cost overruns on the recreation centre projects.
