overrun
oh ver ruhn
- n too much production or more than expected
- v invade in great numbers
- v occupy in large numbers or live on a host
- v flow or run over (a limit or brim)
- v seize the position of and defeat
- v run beyond or past
- The Viet Cong had steadily harassed Dak Son, and four times this year had mounted an attack and tried to overrun it; each time they had been stopped short of the defense .
- But that's a small point, compared with the larger issue that has clouded this summer: How can you sustain a democracy if one of the two major political parties has been overrun by .
- But if you overrun us, we just might strike first.