English Dictionary

overrun

/ˌəʊ.vəˈɹʌn/

verb

To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively. / To infest, swarm over, flow over. / To run past; to run beyond. / To run past the end of.

The enemy forces overran the city, capturing all strategic locations.

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

To infest, swarm over, flow over.

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

意味（3）

To run past; to run beyond.

意味（4）

To run past the end of.

The aircraft didn't stop in time and overran the runway.

意味（5）

To continue for too long.

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

意味（6）

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

意味（7）

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.

意味（8）

To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.

None of them the feeble overren.