Meaning of "overrun" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF OVERRUN

overrun  [ˌəʊvəˈrʌn]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVERRUN

Overrun is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb overrun in English.

WHAT DOES OVERRUN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of overrun in the English dictionary

The first definition of overrun in the dictionary is to attack or invade and defeat conclusively. Other definition of overrun is to swarm or spread over rapidly. Overrun is also to run over ; overflow.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO OVERRUN

PRESENT

Present

I overrun

you overrun

he/she/it overruns

we overrun

you overrun

they overrun

Present continuous

I am overrunning

you are overrunning

he/she/it is overrunning

we are overrunning

you are overrunning

they are overrunning

Present perfect

I have overrun

you have overrun

he/she/it has overrun

we have overrun

you have overrun

they have overrun

Present perfect continuous

I have been overrunning

you have been overrunning

he/she/it has been overrunning

we have been overrunning

you have been overrunning

they have been overrunning

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I overran

you overran

he/she/it overran

we overran

you overran

they overran

Past continuous

I was overrunning

you were overrunning

he/she/it was overrunning

we were overrunning

you were overrunning

they were overrunning

Past perfect

I had overrun

you had overrun

he/she/it had overrun

we had overrun

you had overrun

they had overrun

Past perfect continuous

I had been overrunning

you had been overrunning

he/she/it had been overrunning

we had been overrunning

you had been overrunning

they had been overrunning

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will overrun

you will overrun

he/she/it will overrun

we will overrun

you will overrun

they will overrun

Future continuous

I will be overrunning

you will be overrunning

he/she/it will be overrunning

we will be overrunning

you will be overrunning

they will be overrunning

Future perfect

I will have overrun

you will have overrun

he/she/it will have overrun

we will have overrun

you will have overrun

they will have overrun

Future perfect continuous

I will have been overrunning

you will have been overrunning

he/she/it will have been overrunning

we will have been overrunning

you will have been overrunning

they will have been overrunning

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would overrun

you would overrun

he/she/it would overrun

we would overrun

you would overrun

they would overrun

Conditional continuous

I would be overrunning

you would be overrunning

he/she/it would be overrunning

we would be overrunning

you would be overrunning

they would be overrunning

Conditional perfect

I would have overrun

you would have overrun

he/she/it would have overrun

we would have overrun

you would have overrun

they would have overrun

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been overrunning

you would have been overrunning

he/she/it would have been overrunning

we would have been overrunning

you would have been overrunning

they would have been overrunning

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you overrun
we let´s overrun
you overrun

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to overrun

Past participle

overrun

Present Participle

overrunning

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «OVERRUN»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «overrun» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of overrun

assail · assault · attack · choke · exceed · infest · inundate · invade · occupy · outrun · overflow · overgrow · overshoot · overwhelm · penetrate · permeate · raid · rout · surpass · swamp

TRANSLATION OF OVERRUN

Find out the translation of overrun to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of overrun from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «overrun» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 迅速占领
• Translator English - Spanish: invadir
• English: overrun
• Translator English - Hindi: उग आया
• Translator English - Arabic: تجاوز
• Translator English - Russian: Переполнение
• Translator English - Portuguese: invadir
• Translator English - Bengali: পদদলিত করা
• Translator English - French: envahir
• Translator English - Malay: Ditakluki
• Translator English - German: einfallen in
• Translator English - Japanese: 一斉に侵略する
• Translator English - Korean: 신속히 장악하다
• Translator English - Javanese: Overrun
• Translator English - Vietnamese: bị tàn phá
• Translator English - Tamil: மிஞ்சு
• Translator English - Marathi: चकित करणे
• Translator English - Turkish: aşmak
• Translator English - Italian: occupare
• Translator English - Polish: opanowane
• Translator English - Ukrainian: переповнення
• Translator English - Romanian: depășire
• Translator English - Greek: υπέρβαση
• Translator English - Afrikaans: oorrompel
• Translator English - Swedish: överskridande
• Translator English - Norwegian: kjørt

10 QUOTES WITH «OVERRUN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word overrun.

1

Gianni Agnelli

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.

2

John Battelle

The open web is full of spam, shady operators, and blatant falsehoods. Outside of a relatively small percentage of high quality sites, most of the web is chock full of popup ads and other interruptive come-ons. It's nearly impossible to find signal in that noise, and the web is in danger of being overrun by all that crap.

3

Carl Bernstein

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.

4

Carl Bernstein

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.

5

Stephen Colbert

Thankfully, dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.

6

Lance Henriksen

In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.

7

Sam Houston

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.

8

William Joyce

I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs.

9

Bill Maher

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.

10

James McAvoy

At the heart of every really good Christmas movie is the threat, I suppose, to Christmas. Something is wrong with Christmas, in all of these movies. In 'The Polar Express,' there's a kid that doesn't really believe, and that's the threat to Christmas. In 'Santa Claus: The Movie,' jealousy and greed are threatening to overrun his Christmas.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERRUN»

Discover the use of overrun in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to overrun and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

We shall overcome to we shall overrun: the collapse of the ...

Focusing on the years 1962 to 1968, using a topical chronological approach, this work seeks to discuss the major organizations and personalities central to the African American freedom struggle in the 1960s with an emphasis on the debate ...

Hettie V. Williams, 2009

Overrun by Demons

Overrun by Demons? presents a biblical strategy for spiritual warfare that brings balance to distorted teachings and equips believers to recognize the snares of the devil, the traps of worldliness, and the drive of our own sinful nature.

Thomas Ice, Robert Dean, 1990

Runway overrun during landing American Airlines Flight 1420, ...

The Safety Board compared the CVR sound spectrum for the accident airplane with those for other CVR recordings obtained during the Palm Springs incident and the flight and ground tests that were conducted as part of the investigations of ...

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Some Factors Affecting the Overrun in Creameries

Sinow this statement was made« creamery oost no oo un t ing has developed and our knowledge of overrun has increased. We should reoopmiae that ereamery loaees or faotora affeoting the overrun nay come in from the time the Bilk or ...

Ralph Irving Scoville, 1916

Milk Plant Monthly

Overrun in ice cream is a subject that must of necessity interest every manufacturer of ice cream, especially since it has so much to do with profits, and the quality of ice cream. The more uniform your overrun, the more uniform you can expect ...

‎1919

Project Management: A Reference for Professionals

Cost overrun 4. Schedule overrun 5. Reasons for cost /schedule overruns 6. Project description by classification Figure 3 is a summary of the 116 projects included in the study grouped by project classification. Relationship of Project Size, ...

Kimmons, 1989

Genetically Modified Language: The Discourse of Arguments ...

One particularly revealing product of such analysis is a `concordance', giving us a word or phrase down the centre of the screen, and the context in which it occurred to either side, as follows:8 [p] Here, in apop-town still overrun by middle- aged ...

Guy Cook, 2004

Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition

A. calamitous. history. of. cost. overrun. In this and the following chapters we review the experience from a large number of megaprojects, including the Channel tunnel and the links across Great Belt and Øresund, all three multibillion -dollar ...

Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius, Werner Rothengatter, 2003

Annual Report

"Washing with rollers in motion produced a comparatively high overrun and butter with high mosture content. There was not much dfference in the results by washing butter in water above or below 60° F., what difference there is being in favor ...

Ontario. Agricultural College and Experimental Farm, Guelph, 1908

Sessional Papers

delivered in milk, or cream, or both, were required, they figure that the overrun is 15 per cent., whereas it is over 17J per cent. Some figure the "overrun" on the basis of the fat in the cream churned, which is the plan followed in these ...

Ontario. Legislative Assembly, 1907

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERRUN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term overrun is used in the context of the following news items.

No easy solution for neighbourhood 'overrun' by prostitution

“Basically, we're being overrun by prostitution,” said Bob Larson, who has lived in the neighbourhood for seven years. “I don't have an issue ... «CTV News, Jul 15»

Plymouth train journeys delayed as engineering works overrun

COMMUTERS planning on travelling to Newton Abbott on the train this morning are being advised to expect delays as engineering works have ... «Plymouth Herald, Jul 15»

Weatherford home overrun with copperhead snakes

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Texas couple's property overrun with copperhead snakes

WEATHERFORD, Texas, July 24 (UPI) -- A Texas couple said their property is being overrun by copperhead snakes, with nearly 100 of the ... «UPI.com, Jul 15»

Texas family's property is overrun with copperhead snakes

A Texas woman is scared to leave her house because her property is overrun with copperhead snakes. 'If one got in the house or in the cars, ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»

Delayed investment projects in Chhattisgarh result in cost overrun …

Besides, central government projects have reported highest cost overrun to the tune of 47 per cent followed by private sector (37 per cent) and ... «Business Standard, Jul 15»

Courtyard by Marriott Hotel now plagued by construction cost overrun

The foundation work for a new Courtyard by Marriott on West Third Street has been in place for months, waiting for design changes to see a ... «Northwest Georgia News, Jul 15»

Charlesbourg couple overrun by their cats

Upon arriving at the scene it was discovered that the single residence home was overrun by cats and that the odour from cat urine and faeces ... «Life in Quebec, Jul 15»

Rome's famous Trevi fountain is being overrun by rats

The Trevi fountain in central Rome has seemingly become home to rats, with tourists photographing the rodents as they clamber over the ... «The Independent, Jul 15»

Neighborhood overrun by rodents could see relief by the end of week

It's a neighborhood eyesore. And neighbors say they've had enough of this lot on Annesley Street. MOREAdditional LinksPoll. “I have a lot of ... «WNEM Saginaw, Jul 15»