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overran
verb as in defeat, invade
Example Sentences
It caused significant delays - the couple's first trial overran by about three months, while the second overran by nearly two months.
She even had to ask people to stop cheering after Boy's A Liar, in case her set overran.
The UN Humans Right Office said 47 people were injured on Tuesday after people overran one of the GHF distribution sites in the southern city of Rafah, a day after it began working there.
It later overran the runway, slammed into a concrete structure and exploded.
Since the White Army overran the base, there had been persistent aerial bombardment causing "significant casualties and horrific burns", he said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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