Word Direct Answers

What does "overrun" mean?

Overrun: To exceed in distance or speed of running; to go beyond or pass in running. Ahimaaz run by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi. 2 Sam. xviii.

Additional senses

  1. 2.3. To go beyond; to extend in part beyond; as, one line overruns another in length. Note: In machinery, a sliding piece is said to overrun its bearing when its forward end goes beyond it.
  2. 3.To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon. None of them the feeble overran. Spenser.
  3. 4.(Print.) (a) To carry over, or back, as type, from one line or page into the next after, or next before. (b) To extend the contents of (a line, column, or page) into the next line, column, or page.
  4. 5.To run, pass, spread, or flow over or by something; to be beyond, or in excess. Despised and trodden down of all that overran. Spenser.
  5. 6.(Print.) To extend beyond its due or desired length; as, a line, or advertisement, overruns.

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