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overrunning

noun as in deluge

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The plot centers on thousands of impoverished Indian farmers who commandeer a fleet and sail, dirty, uncivilized and desperate, to France, where a small resistance is all that stands in the way from their overrunning the country.

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The Angels’ hiccups have taken various forms, from expected slumps and rough outings to simple mistakes, including forgetting how many outs there are, getting tagged out for overrunning a base and violating the pitch clock.

Undocumented immigrants are overrunning the country, some claimed, ripping off taxpayers.

“Something snapped in this guy — for real — when he lost in 2020,” Biden said, suggesting the former president was “unhinged” and was the driving force behind a mob of his supporters overrunning the U.S.

“I was on a couple hours ago with the Wildwood mayor, and he said we had a fantastic weekend, we happened to have this overrunning of, it sounds like, a bunch of teenagers.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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