英语词汇“overrun”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

verb | noun

overrunoverrun1 /ˌoʊvɚˈrʌn/ verb (past tense overran /-ˈræn/, past participle overrun, overrunning)

VERB TABLE

overrun

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	overrun
	he, she, it	overruns
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	overran
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have overrun
	he, she, it	has overrun
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had overrun
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will overrun
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have overrun

Continuous Form
Present	I	am overrunning
	he, she, it	is overrunning
	you, we, they	are overrunning
Past	I, he, she, it	was overrunning
	you, we, they	were overrunning
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been overrunning
	he, she, it	has been overrunning
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been overrunning
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be overrunning
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been overrunning

1[transitive] if something unwanted overruns a place or area, it spreads all over it in large quantities: be overrun by/with something an apartment building overrun by gangs and drugs The trees and bushes were overrun with vines.2[intransitive, transitive] if a river overruns its banks, it is so full that the water flows over its edges3[transitive] to defeat a place or an area and take control of it: Soviet troops overran the nation in 1940. → see also run over at run1