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Overrun vs Bego - What's the difference?

overrun | bego |

As verbs the difference between overrun and bego

is that overrun is to defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing his positions conclusively while bego is (archaic) to go about; encompass; surround; beset, surround with hostile intent; to overrun.

As nouns the difference between overrun and bego

is that overrun is an instance of overrunning while bego is that which besets, surrounds, compasses, or affects; situation; circumstance.

overrun

English

Verb

(transitive)
  • To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing his positions conclusively.
  • To infest, swarm over, flow over.
  • The vine overran''' its trellis; the field is '''overrun with weeds.
  • * Spenser
  • those barbarous nations that overran the world
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=As President Obama turns his attention once again to filling out a cabinet and writing an Inaugural Address, this much is clear: he should not expect to bask in a surge of national unity, or to witness a crowd of millions overrun the Mall just to say they were there.}}
  • To run past; to run beyond.
  • The athlete overran the finish line and kept going.
    One line overruns another in length.
  • * Bible, 2. Sam. xviii. 23
  • Ahimaaz run by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.
  • To continue for too long.
  • The performance overran by ten minutes, which caused some people to miss their bus home.
  • (printing) 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.
  • In machinery, a sliding piece is said to overrun its bearing when its forward end goes beyond it.
  • To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
  • * Spenser
  • None of them the feeble overran .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of overrunning
  • * 2013 June 18, , " Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
  • Some of the stadiums being built for the World Cup soccer tournament, scheduled for next year, have also been criticized for delays and cost overruns , and have become subjects of derision as protesters question whether they will become white elephants.
  • The amount by which something overruns
  • ''At least this year's overrun isn't as unmanageable as last year!

    bego

    English

    Verb

  • (archaic) To go about; encompass; surround; beset, surround with hostile intent; to overrun.
  • *1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book V:
  • *:Thy prysemen ar sore begone and put undir, for they ar oversette with Sarazens mo than fyve hondred.
  • *1892 , Albany Law Journal - Volumes 44-45 - Page 166:
  • False love, I bego', I ' bego . Ere something still worse come down.
  • *1902 , Carolyn Wells, Abeniki Caldwell: A Burlesque Historical Novel - Page 178 :
  • He bewent speedily, and as he vanished I heard him again calling, " Not she, not she ! Ha, ha ! "
  • *2013 , Ambrose Bierce, Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce :
  • They bewent , asmirking, And I, awakening, fell straight aworking.
  • (obsolete) To clothe, dress.
  • To affect, usually as a good or bad influence, or as a circumstance.
  • :He was woe begone .
  • Noun

    (begoes)
  • That which besets, surrounds, compasses, or affects; situation; circumstance.
  • *2011 , Loretto Gubernatis, Dimitrius and the Gladiolas :
  • “As I was passing by a vineyard on the Earth where some of mankind were taking their lunch, I heard them complaining and grumbling about these things they called 'ants'. Oh the woes and begoes of mankind,” smiled the good lord.