overrunverb
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈrʌn/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈrʌn/present participle overrunning, past tense overran, past participle overrunoverrun verb (FILL)
[ T ] If unwanted people or things overrun, they fill a place quickly and in large numbers:
Rebel soldiers overran the embassy last night.
Our kitchen is overrun with cockroaches.
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Filling and completing
- brick
- brick up sth
- brim
- crowd
- crowd sb/sth out
- fill
- jam
- occupancy
- occupy
- overcrowded
- overran
- pack sth/somewhere out
- plug
- round
- supersaturated
- tank
- tank up
- top sb up
- top sth up
- wadding
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overrun verb (GO PAST)
[ I or T ] to continue past an intended limit, especially a finishing time or a cost:
My evening class overran by ten minutes.
It looks as if we're going to overrun our budget.
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Continue & last
- (it's) business as usual idiom
- bash on
- carry (sth) on
- cease
- cont
- contd
- drag
- keep at sth
- keep on doing sth
- keep on trucking idiom
- keep sb at it idiom
- nine
- push
- run over (sth)
- see sth out
- segue
- soldier on
- spill
- stick
- string
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overrun
noun [ C ] ukus