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How to pronounce “overrun”
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Pronunciation guide for overrun
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of overrun with real speech in context.
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- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Clausewitz: His Life and Work
when the position he's in one time is overrun.
- Definition summary
- (transitive) To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
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How to pronounce overrun
Clausewitz: His Life and Work
when the position he's in one time is overrun.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “overrun”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
- (transitive) To infest, swarm over, flow over.
- (transitive) To run past; to run beyond.
- (intransitive) To continue for too long.
- (printing) To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
- (transitive) To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
- (transitive) To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
- [Noun]
- An instance of overrunning.
- The amount by which something overruns.
- (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.
- (food) Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat.
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