Definitions for overran

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overran o·ver·ran

Spelling: [oh-ver-ran]

IPA: /ˌoʊ vərˈræn/

Overran is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in overran (aenorrv).

Definitions for overran

noun

1. an act or instance of overrunning.
2. an amount in excess; surplus:
3. the exceeding of estimated costs in design, development, and production, especially as estimated in a contract:
4. the amount exceeded:
5. a run on an item of manufacture beyond the quantity ordered by a customer and often offered at a discount.
6. the amount by which the volume of a food, as butter or ice cream, is increased above the original volume by the inclusion of air, water, or another substance:

verb

1. simple past tense of overrun.

verb (used with object)

1. to rove over (a country, region, etc.); invade; ravage:
2. to swarm over in great numbers, as animals, especially vermin; infest:
3. to spread or grow rapidly over, as plants, especially vines, weeds, etc.:
4. to attack and defeat decisively, occupying and controlling the enemy's position; overwhelm.
5. to spread rapidly throughout, as a new idea or spirit:
6. to run or go beyond, as a certain limit:
7. to exceed, as a budget or estimate:
8. to run over; overflow:
9. Printing. to print additional copies of (a book, pamphlet, etc.) in excess of the original or the usual order. to carry over (type or words) to another page.
10. Nautical. to sail past (an intended stopping or turning point) by accident. (of a ship) to complete (a schedule of calls) more rapidly than anticipated.
11. to outrun; overtake in running.

verb (used without object)

1. to run over; overflow:
2. to exceed the proper, desired, or normal quantity, limit, order, etc.:

Origin of overran

before 900; Middle English overrennen, Old English oferyrnan. See over-, run

Examples for overran

They infested the ships, they overran the wharves, they traversed the sewers.

The English took advantage of these disputes, and overran the land.

That divine pity which only a woman can feel filled and overran her heart.

The Yazidis, members of an ancient religious sect, fled when the Islamic State overran their homes.

Then crossing the Adda, they overran the country as far as Milan.

An American Airlines jet overran a runway in Jamaica on Tuesday night, injuring 91 people on board.

Al-Qaeda overran Lahij on August 11 unchallenged, bombed the buildings specified in the memos, then left.

In Greece it was first the rude Hellenes who overran the Pelasgians.

The Boxers, practising their mystic rites, overran the district.

Indeed, the separatists boasted at the end of June of capturing a Buk system when they overran a Ukrainian base.