noun
Meaning 1
An instance of overrunning.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
overrun
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Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈəʊ.vəˌɹʌn/
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US: /ˈoʊ.vɚˌɹʌn/
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UK: /ˌəʊ.vəˈɹʌn/
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noun
Meaning 2
An instance of overrunning.
A turnover: a break to a new line by text flowing within the column.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: media, printing, publishing
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: runover
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The amount by which something overruns.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- At least this year's overrun isn't as unmanageable as last year!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
An area of terrain beyond the end of a runway that is kept flat and unobstructed to allow an aircraft that runs off the end of the runway to stop safely.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
Examples
- The runway has 7,000 feet of paved surface, plus a 2,000-foot grass overrun.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: runway safety area, stopway
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: food, lifestyle
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To infest, swarm over, flow over.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- The vine overran its trellis; the field is overrun with weeds.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
To run past; to run beyond.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- The athlete overran the finish line and kept going.
- One line overruns another in length.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 9
To run past; to run beyond.
To run past the end of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- The aircraft didn't stop in time and overran the runway.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 10
To continue for too long.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- The performance overran by ten minutes, which caused some people to miss their bus home.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: run over
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 11
To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: media, printing, publishing
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: run over
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 12
To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- In machinery, a sliding piece is said to overrun its bearing when its forward end goes beyond it.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 13
To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: run over
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 14
too much production or more than expected
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: overproduction
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: production
verb
Meaning 15
run beyond or past
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The plane overran the runway
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: overshoot
verb
Meaning 16
seize the position of and defeat
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the Crusaders overran much of the Holy Land
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: get the better of, overcome, defeat
verb
Meaning 17
invade in great numbers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the roaches infested our kitchen
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: infest
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: invade, occupy
verb
Meaning 18
flow or run over (a limit or brim)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: overflow, well over, run over, brim over
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: spill, run out
Narrower terms: geyser
verb
Meaning 19
occupy in large numbers or live on a host
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: invade, infest
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: inhabit
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English run English overrun From over- + run.
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dutch: overrompeling — instance of overrunning
- Dutch: overschrijding — instance of overrunning
- Dutch: overstroming — instance of overrunning
- Spanish: excedimiento — instance of overrunning
- Dutch: overschrijding — amount by which something overruns
- Dutch: onder de voet lopen — to defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers
- Dutch: overstromen — to defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers
- German: überrennen — to defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers
- Spanish: sobrepasar — to defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers
- Czech: zamořit — to infest, swarm over
- Czech: zaplavit — to infest, swarm over
- Czech: zatopit — to infest, swarm over
- Dutch: onder de voet lopen — to infest, swarm over
- Dutch: overrompelen — to infest, swarm over
- Dutch: zwermen over — to infest, swarm over
- Dutch: overstromen — to infest, swarm over
- German: befallen — to infest, swarm over
- German: überschwemmen — to infest, swarm over
- German: überhäufen — to infest, swarm over
- Māori: pokipoki — to infest, swarm over
- Māori: kōwaowao — to infest, swarm over
- Portuguese: infestar — to infest, swarm over
- Swedish: översvämma — to infest, swarm over
- Turkish: istila etmek — to infest, swarm over
- Dutch: overschijden — to run past, exceed
- Dutch: voorbijlopen — to run past, exceed
- Dutch: inhalen — to run past, exceed
- German: überschreiten — to run past, exceed
- Czech: přetáhnout — to continue for too long — see also run over
- Czech: protáhnout se — to continue for too long — see also run over
- Dutch: te lang doorbijlopen — to continue for too long — see also run over
- German: überziehen — to continue for too long — see also run over
- German: überschreiten — to continue for too long — see also run over
- Slovak: pretiahnuť — to continue for too long — see also run over
Real reading context