overrun

Plural: overruns

Noun

• too much production or more than expected
• An instance of overrunning.
• The amount by which something overruns.
• 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.
• Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat.

Verb

Verb Forms: overran, overrunning, overruns

• To spread or swarm over; to exceed a limit.
• invade in great numbers
• occupy in large numbers or live on a host
• flow or run over (a limit or brim)
• seize the position of and defeat
• run beyond or past
• 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; to run beyond.
• To run past the end of.
• To continue for too long.
• To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
• To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
• To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.

Examples

• At least this year's overrun isn't as unmanageable as last year!
• In machinery, a sliding piece is said to overrun its bearing when its forward end goes beyond it.
• One line overruns another in length.
• The aircraft didn't stop in time and overran the runway.
• The athlete overran the finish line and kept going.
• The opponent’s tiles threatened to overrun the board, leaving no space for my bingos.
• The performance overran by ten minutes, which caused some people to miss their bus home.
• The runway has 7,000 feet of paved surface, plus a 2,000-foot grass overrun.
• The vine overran its trellis; the field is overrun with weeds.

Synonyms

brim over, infest, invade, overflow, overproduction, run over, well over, runway safety area, stopway

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