Usually means: Exceeding capacity or limits extensively.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. overrun: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overrun: Merriam-Webster
  3. overrun: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overrun: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overrun: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overrun: Vocabulary.com
  7. Overrun, overrun: Wordnik
  8. overrun: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. overrun: Wiktionary
  10. overrun: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. overrun: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. overrun: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. overrun: Dictionary.com
  14. overrun: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Overrun: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Overrun: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. overrun: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. overrun: Rhymezone
  19. Overrun: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. overrun: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. overrun: FreeDictionary.org
  22. overrun: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. overrun: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Overrun: Miniature Wargaming Glossary
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Overrun: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. overrun: Legal dictionary
  4. Overrun: Financial dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. overrun: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. overrun: CCI Computer
  3. overrun: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
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Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
verb:  (transitive) To infest, swarm over, flow over.
verb:  (transitive) To run past; to run beyond.
verb:  (transitive) To run past the end of.
verb:  (intransitive) To continue for too long.
verb:  (printing) To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
verb:  (transitive) To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
verb:  (transitive) To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
noun:  An instance of overrunning.
noun:  The amount by which something overruns.
noun:  (aviation) An area of terrain beyond the end of a runway that is kept flat and unobstructed to allow an aircraft that runs off the end of the runway to stop safely.
noun:  (food) Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat.

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