overrun

Meanings

Verb

• To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
• To infest, swarm over, flow over.
• To run past; to run beyond.
• To continue for too long.
• To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
• To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
• To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.

Noun

• An instance of overrunning.
• The amount by which something overruns.
• 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.
• Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat.

Related

Similar words

• runway safety area
• stopway

Origin

• over- + run.