Meaning Of The Word Overrun

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What's The Definition Of Overrun?

overrun
If you say that a place is overrun with or by things that you consider undesirable, you mean that there are a large number of them there.
verb: If an army or an armed force overruns a place, area, or country, it succeeds in occupying it very quickly.
verb: If an event or meeting overruns by, for example, ten minutes, it continues for ten minutes longer than it was intended to.
verb: If costs overrun, they are higher than was planned or expected.

overrun in American English
to run or spread out over so as to cover
intransitive verb: to run over; overflow
noun: an act or instance of overrunning
transitive verb: to rove over (a country, region, etc.); invade; ravage

overrun in British English
noun: the act or an instance of overrunning
verb: to attack or invade and defeat conclusively

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