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overrun的过去形

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Overrun \O`ver*run"\, v. t. [imp. {Overran}; p. p. {Overrun}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Overrunning}. ]
   1. To run over; to grow or spread over in excess; to invade
      and occupy; to take possession of; as, the vine overran
      its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass.

            Those barbarous nations that overran the world.
                                                  --Spenser.

   2. 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. 23.

   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.

   4. To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.

            None of them the feeble overran.      --Spenser.

   5. (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.

资料来源 : WordNet®

overrun
     adj : (often followed by `with' or used in combination) troubled
           by or encroached upon in large numbers; "waters
           infested with sharks"; "shark-infested waters"; "the
           locust-overrun countryside"; "drug-plagued streets"
           [syn: {infested}, {plagued}]
     n : too much production or more than expected [syn: {overproduction}]
     v 1: invade in great numbers; "the roaches infested our kitchen"
          [syn: {infest}]
     2: occupy in large numbers or live on a host; "the Kudzu plant
        infests much of the South and is spreading to the North"
        [syn: {invade}, {infest}]
     3: flow or run over (a limit or brim) [syn: {overflow}, {well
        over}, {run over}, {brim over}]
     4: seize the position of and defeat; "the Crusaders overran
        much of the Holy Land"
     5: run beyond  or past; "The plane overran the runway"
     [also: {overrunning}, {overran}]

overran
     See {overrun}