Usually means: Exceeded or surpassed an area.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. overran: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overran: Merriam-Webster
  3. overran: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overran: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overran: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overran: Vocabulary.com
  7. overran: Wordnik
  8. overran: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. overran: Wiktionary
  10. overran: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Overran, overran: Dictionary.com
  12. overran: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Overran: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. Overran: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. overran: FreeDictionary.org
  16. overran: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. overran: Legal dictionary
  2. overran: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overran: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
verb:  (transitive) To infest, swarm over, flow over.
verb:  (transitive) To run past; to run beyond.
verb:  (transitive) To run past the end of.
verb:  (intransitive) To continue for too long.
verb:  (printing) To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
verb:  (transitive) To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
verb:  (transitive) To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
noun:  An instance of overrunning.
noun:  The amount by which something overruns.
noun:  (aviation) An area of terrain beyond the end of a runway that is kept flat and unobstructed to allow an aircraft that runs off the end of the runway to stop safely.
noun:  (food) Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat.
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