overrun
Speech parts
1. overrun - Noun
2. overrun - Verb
Meaning
of Overrun
To run over; to grow or spread over in excess; to invade and occupy; to take possession of; as, the vine overran its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass.
To exceed in distance or speed of running; to go beyond or pass in running.
To go beyond; to extend in part beyond; as, one line overruns another in length.
To carry over, or back, as type, from one line or page into the next after, or next before.
To extend the contents of (a line, column, or page) into the next line, column, or page.
To run, pass, spread, or flow over or by something; to be beyond, or in excess.
To extend beyond its due or desired length; as, a line, or advertisement, overruns.
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We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.
The lowest form of popular culture-lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives-has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics.
When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.
Ginger: [hauling Clarice up stairs in a wheelchair]: This ivory tower needs some ramps! Clarice: What are you saying, Ginger?! Build ramps and anyone could get up!! The whole school would be overrun by black commie dykes in wheelchairs! Really, now!