overrunning 的 3 个定义
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.
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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?
- 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.
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overrunning 近义词
defeat, invade
infest, spread over; exceed
更多overrunning例句
- 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.