overrun

Meanings

1. To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
2. To infest, swarm over, flow over.
3. To run past; to run beyond.
4. To run past the end of.
5. To continue for too long.
6. To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
7. To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
8. To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.

1. An instance of overrunning.
2. A turnover: a break to a new line by text flowing within the column.
3. The amount by which something overruns.
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.
5. Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat.

Etymology

From over- + run.

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