Word Finder - overrun

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An instance of overrunning

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The amount by which something overruns

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At least this year's overrun isn't as unmanageable as last year!

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Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat.

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To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.

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To infest, swarm over, flow over.

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The vine overran its trellis; the field is overrun with weeds.

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To run past; to run beyond.

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One line overruns another in length.

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To continue for too long.

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The performance overran by ten minutes, which caused some people to miss their bus home.

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To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.

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To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.

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In machinery, a sliding piece is said to overrun its bearing when its forward end goes beyond it.

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To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.

What the Spaniards had then overrun from Mexico to Chile is still Spanish America.

Italy at this time began to be overrun by bands of soldiers of fortune.

In the latter part of the decade1850-1859the territories adjacent to California on the east, north and south were overrun by thousands of miners from the Sierra Nevada goldfields, and within a few years an extraordinary number of discoveries were made, some of which proved to be of great importance.

A Prussian reserve corps under the grand duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, formed at Leipzig, had meanwhile overrun eastern Bavaria up to Nuremberg.

His descendants ruled in the country until about 1500, when it was overrun by the Uzbeg Tatars, under Abulkhair or Ebulkheir Khan, the founder of the Shaibani dynasty, with which the history of Bokhara properly commences.

The Trypanosomes ultimately overrun practically all parts of the body, sometimes not even the ova escaping.

But now, Tonwell has been overrun by savage barbarians.

Disregarding the neutrality of the Germanic System, Napoleon sent a strong French corps to overrun Hanover, while he despatched General Gouvion St Cyr to occupy Taranto and other dominating positions in the south-east of the kingdom of Naples.

Fifty years later Gaul was overrun by the barbarians, and Vesontio sacked (355).

Maurice's ally, Albert Alcibiades, prince of Bayreuth, was taken prisoner at Rochlitz; and the duke, driven from electoral Saxony, was unable to prevent his own lands from being overrun.

Instead of remaining in Carolina he determined to march into Virginia, justifying the move on the ground that until Virginia was reduced he could not firmly hold the more southern states he had just overrun.

It was overrun by Slavic hordes, who have left their traces in many village names, and was one of the chief battlefields of the various powers - Byzantines, Franks, Venetians and Turks - who struggled for the possession of the Morea.

Governor Estevan Miro of Louisiana, however, disapproved of the grant, on the ground that it would cause the province to be overrun by Americans; the settlers became restive under the restraints imposed upon them; Morgan himself left; and in December 1811 and January 1812 a series of severe earthquake shocks caused a general emigration.

To these was soon added Egypt, which was overrun with little difficulty by `Amr ibn-elAss (q.v.) in 640.

Nearly the whole of Europe was gradually overrun by the pestilence.

The duchy was quickly overrun, and Henry - a Catholic prince - driven out; but the good understanding between the emperor and the landgrave was destroyed, and the relations between Protestants and Catholics became worse than before.

Indeed, although frequently overrun by Mussulman armies, and its western districts annexed to the Mahommedan vice-royalty of Bengal, the province maintained an uncertain independence till its invasion by the Burmese towards the end of the 18th century, and its final cession to the British in 1826.

In 1675 Pomerania and the bishopric of Bremen were overrun by the Brandenburgers, Austrians and Danes.

After him Abu Said, grandson of Miran Shah, and once governor of Fars, became a candidate for empire, and allied himself with the Uzbeg Tatars, seized Bokhara, entered Khorasan, and waged war upon the Turkoman tribe aforesaid, which, since the invasion of Azerbaijan, had, under Jahan Shah, overrun Irak, Fars and Kermgn, and pillaged Herat.

Kummukh, however, the district to which it belonged, was overrun by early Assyrian kings.

As he characterized his opponents in general as the "pestilent herd of libertine scribblers with which the island is overrun," it is no matter of surprise that the book made him many bitter enemies.

In the following century the Goths poured into this quarter of the empire, and in the 5th century it was overrun one after the other by the Huns, the Avars and the Bulgarians.

In the 13th century Bessarabia was overrun by the irresistible Mongols under the leadership of Batu, grandson of Jenghiz Khan.

The young king of France had gathered an army about Lyons, wherewith to overrun the Milanese; his allies were the republics of Venice and Genoa.

Shoa had already shaken off his yoke; Gojam was virtually independent; Walkeit and Simen were under a rebel chief; and Lasta, Waag and the country about Lake Ashangi had submitted to Wagshum Gobassie, who had also overrun Tigre and appointed Dejaj Kassai his governor.

Many of the districts which had been overrun in the time of the Angevin kings were lost; many of the Anglo-Norman families intermarried with and became absorbed by the Irish; they grew as careless of their-allegiaiice to the crown as any of the native chiefs.

It was soon borne in upon King Henry that France, even when engaged with other enemies, was too strong to be overrun in the old style.

Before the end of the year the invasion was repulsed, and the ragged armies of the Revolution had overrun Savoy and the Austrian Netherlands, and were threatening the aristocratic Dutch republic Very few governments in Europe were so rooted in the affections of their people as to be able to look without terror on the challenge thus thrown out to them.

In spite of his youth he soon found an opportunity of displaying his mettle; for he arrested Hezekiah the arch-brigand, who had overrun the Syrian border, and put him to death.

In 1776 the country was overrun by Hyder Ali, but was retaken by the Peshwa with British assistance.

After the discovery of Albert Nyanza by Sir Samuel Baker in 1864, the whole country was overrun by Arabs, Levantines, Turks and others, whose chief occupation was slave raiding.

Laconia was subsequently overrun, like so much of the Roman Empire, by barbarian hordes.

It is traversed from east to west by the Pyrenees and the Cantabrian Mountains, and almost the whole of the province is overrun by the ramifications of these ranges.

They had overrun Bavaria in the very year of its subjugation by Charlemagne (788), and it took an eight-years struggle to destroy the robber stronghold.

Southern Spain was overrun and plundered by the Vandals before their departure for Africa.

On the west the Bahr-el-Ghazal had been overrun by Arab or semi-Arab slave-dealers.

The Assyrian inscriptions have shown that the Assyrians had never crossed the Halys, much less known the name of Lydia, before the age of Assur-bani-pal, and consequently the theory which brought the Heraclids from Nineveh must be given up. But the Hittites, another Oriental people, deeply imbued with the elements of Babylonian culture, had overrun Asia Minor and established themselves on the shores of the Aegean before the reign of the Egyptian king Rameses II.

Gyges (q.v.) put him to death and established the dynasty of the Mermnads, 687 B.C. Gyges initiated a new policy, that of making Lydia a maritime power; but towards the middle of his reign the kingdom was overrun by the Cimmerii.

Some time previously - the date is not known - he had overrun the mountain districts of Cilicia.

Swiping at the air, A'Ran couldn't help but feel furious that the Council would protect such civilizations from those that were more advanced out of some sense of fairness while sitting by doing nothing as his planet was overrun and his parents murdered.

Upper class circles imagined that the country was overrun by Bolshevik agitators.

In light of this, Sir Ian's explanation for the project's two-year overrun sounds rather disingenuous.

Samaria was also overrun by the Assyrian monarch, and the country heavily taxed.

His holt can very well be passed, his delicious scent may be overrun; but the pure-bred otterhound is equal to all occasions.

The cost overrun on the scheme is expected to be less than £ 20,000.

Vehicle Technology Caravans overrun devices Standard Spring Cylinder Most AL-KO overrun devices supplied to the caravan market are fitted with a standard spring cylinder.

After being routed by troops loyal to the republic, Thompson and about 12 companions were isolated and eventually overrun by army regiments.

Additional overrun time can be obtained by adjusting the potentiometer in the control unit.

In 15 3 7 the island, then a prosperous Venetian colony, was overrun and ruined by the pirate Barbarossa (Khair-ed-Din).

Portugal was easily overrun by the allies; but Junot's utmost efforts failed to secure the Portuguese fleet, which, under the protection of a British squadron, sailed away to Brazil with the royal family, the ministers and chief grandees of the realm.