Usually means: Exceeding expected limits or boundaries.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word overrunning:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. overrunning: Merriam-Webster
  2. overrunning: Collins English Dictionary
  3. overrunning: Vocabulary.com
  4. Overrunning, overrunning: Wordnik
  5. overrunning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. overrunning: Wiktionary
  7. Overrunning, overrunning: Dictionary.com
  8. Overrunning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Overrunning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. overrunning: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. overrunning: FreeDictionary.org
  12. overrunning: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. overrunning: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overrunning: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (overrun)

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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