overrun
Short definition from Wiktionary
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; 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.
Noun
- 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.
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