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Trample vs Overrun - What's the difference?

trample | overrun |

As verbs the difference between trample and overrun

is that trample is to crush something by walking on it while overrun is to defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing his positions conclusively.

As nouns the difference between trample and overrun

is that trample is the sound of heavy footsteps while overrun is an instance of overrunning.

trample

English

Verb

(trampl)
  • To crush something by walking on it.
  • to trample grass or flowers
  • * Bible, Matthew vii. 6
  • Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […]  A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}
  • (by extension) To treat someone harshly.
  • To walk heavily and destructively.
  • * Charles Dickens
  • (by extension) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.
  • (Cowper)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the sound of heavy footsteps
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    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!