Word Finder - overrunning

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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.

The directcrs of Paris, not content with overrunning and plundering Switzerland, had outraged German sentiment in many ways.

A fresh issue of ammunition and food was all the men needed to make them a thoroughly efficient fighting force comprising some ioo,000 troops capable, with a resolute leader and an efficient staff, of crossing over to the right bank of the Moselle, overrunning the I.

The 3rd Div., overrunning the hostile defences with little difficulty, shortly after midday seized Flesquieres and Ribecourt and established itself east of these villages, where the 62nd Div.

While the Visigoths were carrying their raids up to the walls of Constantinople, bands of Ostrogoths, Taifali, Huns and Alans joined them in overrunning the Balkan countries.

Later on, in 1887, both Boers and gold prospectors of all nationalities were overrunning his country, and Umbandine asked for a British resident.

Towards the end of that period the overrunning of Palestine and Syria by the Khabiri and Suti, the forerunners of the Aramaean immigration, changed the conditions, language and government of the country.