overrun
verb (used with object)
to rove over (a country, region, etc.); invade; ravage.
is overrunning
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present progressiveof overrun (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Climate analyst Ed King is monitoring how far the conference is overrunning:
From The Guardian ● Nov. 13, 2021
Even when a dam project is overrunning and costs are soaring, governments are reluctant to scrap them he points out.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2014
Another plant is overrunning parts of the Southwest, including the Grand Canyon.
From Time Magazine Archive
The library extends through three stories, and is overrunning with its twenty-six thousand books and thirteen thousand pamphlets; large and valuable additions have been made to its shelves within a few years.
From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 by Various
