overrun

1. (transitive) To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.transitive

2. (transitive) To infest, swarm over, flow over.Examples: "The vine overran its trellis; the field is overrun with weeds."; "those barbarous nations that over-ran the world"; "As President Obama turns his attention once again to filling out a cabinet and writing an Inaugural Address, this much is clear: he should not expect to bask in a surge of national unity, or to witness a crowd of millions overrun the Mall just to say they were there."transitive

3. (transitive) To run past; to run beyond.Examples: "The athlete overran the finish line and kept going."; "One line overruns another in length."; "Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi."transitive

4. (transitive) To run past; to run beyond.Examples: "The aircraft didn't stop in time and overran the runway."transitive

5. (intransitive) To continue for too long.Examples: "The performance overran by ten minutes, which caused some people to miss their bus home."intransitive

6. (printing) To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.