Crossword-Solution: OVERRAN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Overran | imp. | of Overrun |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OVERRAN | anagram | RANOVER |
We have 30 clues for the answer “OVERRAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Exceeded limits | 1 answer |
| Failed to finish on time | 1 answer |
| Went on beyond the time limit | 1 answer |
| Went beyond, as a time limit | 1 answer |
| Swarmed into | 1 answer |
| Stampeded | 1 answer |
| Spread swiftly. | 1 answer |
| Spread rapidly. | 1 answer |
| Seized control of | 1 answer |
| Invaded; ravaged | 1 answer |
| Invaded in large numbers | 1 answer |
| Exceeded, as the budget | 1 answer |
| Exceeded, as a budget | 1 answer |
| Conquered quickly | 1 answer |
| Defeated conclusively | 1 answer |
| Engulfed | 2 answers |
| Spread swiftly throughout. | 2 answers |
| Invaded | 2 answers |
| Decisively defeated | 3 answers |
| Went past | 3 answers |
| Exceeded. | 5 answers |
| Defeated soundly | 6 answers |
| Swarmed | 6 answers |
| Went beyond | 8 answers |
| DIRTY AND INFESTED WITH RATS | 10 answers |
| Stormed | 12 answers |
| infested | 14 answers |
| Swamped | 19 answers |
| Flooded | 27 answers |
| Defeated | 34 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OVERRAN (5)
How he would figure among them in the churchyard, between services on Sundays; gathering grapes for them from the wild vines that overran the surrounding trees; reciting for their amusement all the epitaphs on the tombstones; or sauntering, with a whole bevy of them, along the banks of the adjacent millpond; while the more bashful country bumpkins hung sheepishly back, envying his superior elegance and address.
There could be little justice here for John Carter, or his son, or for the great Thark who had commanded the savage tribesmen who overran Zodanga’s broad avenues, looting, burning, and murdering.
Wherof ensample concordable Lich to this point of which I meene, Was upon Alisandre sene, 2440 Which hadde set al his entente, So as fortune with him wente, That reson mihte him non governe, Bot of his will he was so sterne, That al the world he overran And what him list he tok and wan.
The writer’s cabin being in the sternmost part of the ship, which had what sailors term a good entry, or was sharp built, the sea, as before noticed, struck her counter with so much violence that the water, with a rushing noise, continually forced its way up the rudder-case, lifted the valve of the water-closet, and overran the cabin floor.
One Camisard (for, according to some, it was in this night's work that they came by the name) fell at this discharge: his comrades burst in the door with hatchets and a beam of wood, overran the lower story of the house, set free the prisoners, and finding one of them in the vine, a sort of Scavenger's Daughter of the place and period, redoubled in fury against Du Chayla, and sought by repeated assaults to carry the upper floors.
Quotes with OVERRAN (2)
Life was taking its vengeance on me, and that vengeance consisted merely in coming back, nothing more. Every case of madness involves something coming back. People who are possessed are not possessed by something that just comes but instead by something that comes back. Sometimes life comes back. If in me everything crumbled before that power, it is not because that power was itself necessarily an overwhelming one: it in fact had only to come, since it had already become too …
It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an intense and iridescent green; sunlight glinted on flower-studded meadows as the Germans encircled the Maginot Line and overran not only France but Belgium and Holland. Birdsong filled the air in the lull between bursts of gunfire and accompanied the fleeing refugees who blocked the roads. It was as though the weather was preparing…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 34 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).