Overrun

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·p.p. of Overrun.

II. Overrun ·vt To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.

III. Overrun ·vt To exceed in distance or speed of running; to go beyond or pass in running.

IV. Overrun ·vi To run, pass, spread, or flow over or by something; to be beyond, or in excess.

V. Overrun ·vt To go beyond; to extend in part beyond; as, one line overruns another in length.

VI. Overrun ·vi To extend beyond its due or desired length; as, a line, or advertisement, overruns.

VII. Overrun ·vt To extend the contents of (a line, column, or page) into the next line, column, or page.

VIII. Overrun ·vt To carry over, or back, as type, from one line or page into the next after, or next before.

IX. Overrun ·vt 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.