overrun🔊

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 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. +

An instance of overrunning.

(printing) A turnover: a break to a new line by text flowing within the column.

The amount by which something overruns.

(aviation) 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. +

(food) Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat.