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

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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 .

Verb

To ride across or beyond something.

To ride a horse too hard.

To counteract the normal operation of something.

The Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law .

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The needs of the windmill must override everything else, he said.

(programming, object-oriented) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.

How the cat runs is defined in the method run() of the class Cat, which overrides the same method with the same signature of superclass called Mammal.