overrun

overrun
[[t]o͟ʊvə(r)rʌ̱n[/t]]
overruns, overrunning, overran
1) VERB If an army or an armed force overruns a place, area, or country, it succeeds in occupying it very quickly.

[V n] A group of rebels overran the port area and most of the northern suburbs...

[V n] The centre of New Delhi was overrun by an armed mob which attacked government buildings.

2) ADJ-GRADED: v-link ADJ, usu ADJ with/by n If you say that a place is overrun with things that you consider undesirable, you mean that there are a large number of them there.

The flower beds were overrun with grasses...

The Hotel has been ordered to close because it is overrun by mice and rats...

Padua and Vicenza are prosperous, well-preserved cities, not overrun by tourists.

3) VERB If an event or meeting overruns by, for example, ten minutes, it continues for ten minutes longer than it was intended to.

[V by n] Tuesday's lunch overran by three-quarters of an hour...

[V n] The talks overran their allotted time. [Also V]

4) VERB If costs overrun, they are higher than was planned or expected.

We should stop the nonsense of taxpayers trying to finance joint weapons whose costs always overrun hugely...

[V n] Costs overran the budget by about 30%.

N-COUNT: usu n N
Overrun is also a noun.

He was stunned to discover cost overruns of at least $1 billion.


English dictionary. 2008.

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