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overrun

/verb oh-ver-ruhn; noun oh-ver-ruhn/US // verb ˌoʊ vərˈrʌn; noun ˈoʊ vərˌrʌn //

越位,越界,掉头就跑,越位的情况

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v.有主动词 verb
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    o·ver·ran [oh-ver-ran], /ˌoʊ vərˈræn/, o·ver·run, o·ver·run·ning.

    • : to rove over; invade; ravage: a time when looting hordes had overrun the province.
    • : to swarm over in great numbers, as animals, especially vermin; infest: The house had been overrun by rats.
    • : to spread or grow rapidly over, as plants, especially vines, weeds, etc.: a garden overrun with weeds.
    • : to attack and defeat decisively, occupying and controlling the enemy's position; overwhelm.
    • : to spread rapidly throughout, as a new idea or spirit: a rekindling of scholarship that had overrun Europe.
    • : to run or go beyond, as a certain limit: The new jet overran the landing field.
    • : to exceed, as a budget or estimate: to overrun one's allotted time.
    • : to run over; overflow: During the flood season, the river overruns its banks for several miles.
    • : Printing. to print additional copies of in excess of the original or the usual order.to carry over to another page.
    • : Nautical. to sail past by accident. to complete more rapidly than anticipated.
    • : to outrun; overtake in running.
v.无主动词 verb
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    o·ver·ran [oh-ver-ran], /ˌoʊ vərˈræn/, o·ver·run, o·ver·run·ning.

    • : to run over; overflow: a stream that always overruns at springtime.
    • : to exceed the proper, desired, or normal quantity, limit, order, etc.: Do you want to overrun on this next issue?
n.名词 noun
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    • : an act or instance of overrunning.
    • : an amount in excess; surplus: an overrun of 10,000 copies of a new book.
    • : the exceeding of estimated costs in design, development, and production, especially as estimated in a contract: a staggering overrun on the new fighter plane.
    • : the amount exceeded: an overrun of $500,000 for each fighter plane.
    • : a run on an item of manufacture beyond the quantity ordered by a customer and often offered at a discount.
    • : the amount by which the volume of a food, as butter or ice cream, is increased above the original volume by the inclusion of air, water, or another substance: With only a 20 percent overrun, this is an excellent ice cream.

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Examples

  • Finally, after multiple delays and budget overruns, the California High Speed Rail Authority’s project aims to begin service around 2029, according to CEO Brian Kelly.

  • I’ll bet you see the outlet store as a repository for department store overruns, department store offseason items, and a place to get a great bargain.

  • Despite its successful engine test Thursday, the program has suffered years of setbacks, delays and significant cost overruns.

  • Construction started in 2017 but mostly stopped in September 2020, after the contractor quit over what it said were 2 ½ years of delays and hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of cost overruns.

  • In response, Metro Chief Operating Officer Joe Leader said software has been updated in 7000-series trains to help prevent overruns while Metro also installs a similar system in 6000-series trains.

  • Islands overrun by flawed people, both indigenous and imperialist.

  • He was one of six children who had been in the Ebola isolation center that had been overrun.

  • Had they overrun the Iraqi unit,” Dempsey said, “it was a straight shot to the airport.

  • The episode includes satirical images of crime-ridden, rat-infested slums overrun by child-biting monkeys.

  • Hospitals, overrun with Ebola patients and low on supplies, are not available for his 8-month pregnant wife.

  • Before the country was overrun by the white man, they probably inhabited the region bordering on the Mississippi.

  • Better let France overrun Hanover, for, as we shall possess her colonies, we can force her to surrender it again.

  • They have been sheltering refugees from every nation that has been devastated and overrun by the mad Huns.

  • The consequence was that the whole city was overrun with pamphlets.

  • This place is completely overrun by soldiers passing and repassing.