Crossword-Solution: OVERRUN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Overrun | p. p. | of Overrun |
| Overrun | v. t. | 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. |
| Overrun | v. t. | To exceed in distance or speed of running; to go beyond or pass in running. |
| Overrun | v. t. | To go beyond; to extend in part beyond; as, one line overruns another in length. |
| Overrun | v. t. | To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon. |
| Overrun | v. t. | To carry over, or back, as type, from one line or page into the next after, or next before. |
| Overrun | v. t. | To extend the contents of (a line, column, or page) into the next line, column, or page. |
| Overrun | v. i. | To run, pass, spread, or flow over or by something; to be beyond, or in excess. |
| Overrun | v. i. | To extend beyond its due or desired length; as, a line, or advertisement, overruns. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OVERRUN | anagram | RUNOVER |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with OVERRUN (5)
This may be due to a mismatch in the processing rates of the producing and consuming processes (see {overrun} and {firehose syndrome}), or because the buffer is simply too small to hold all the data that must accumulate before a piece of it can be processed.
Walled in by houses; overrun by grass and weeds, the growth of vegetation's death, not life; choked up with too much burying; fat with repleted appetite.
What makes this duty the more urgent is that fact, that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army.
The sea was incessantly ploughed by the steamers that ply between New York or Boston and the Gulf of Mexico, and overrun day and night by the little schooners coasting about the several parts of the American coast.
Immediately after the war, there was a large class of Southern people who feared that the opening of the free schools to the freedmen and the poor whites--the education of the head alone--would result merely in increasing the class who sought to escape labor, and that the South would soon be overrun by the idle and vicious.
Quotes with OVERRUN (3)
I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I saw what had happened to me and who I was and the way things would always be for me. Truth. There was no more wishing, or wondering. I knew who I was, and what I would always do. I believed it, as my teeth touched and my eyes were overrun.
Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes in their own rights and feel like unbelievers will one day overrun their strongholds
Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of God, the dew on a fresh apple, it's the soft rain of dust that falls into a shaft of morning sun when you pull from an old bookshelf a forgotten volume of erotic diaries; language is the faint scent of urine on a pair of boxer shorts, it's a half-remembered childhood birthday party…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 22 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).