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overran |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Overrun \O`ver*run"\, v. t. [imp. {Overran}; p. p. {Overrun}; p. pr & vb n. {Overrunning}. ] 1. 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. Those barbarous nations that overran the world. --Spenser. 2. To exceed in distance or speed of running; to go beyond or pass in running. Ahimaaz run by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi. --2 Sam. xviii. 23. 3. To go beyond; to extend in part beyond; as one line overruns another in length. Note: In machinery, a sliding piece is said to overrun its bearing when its forward end goes beyond it 4. To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon None of them the feeble overran. --Spenser. 5. (Print.) a To carry over or back as type from one line or page into the next after or next before b To extend the contents of (a line column, or page) into the next line column, or page.
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