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# overrun

verb (overrun, overruns, overran, overrunning)

«overrun» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To overrun a place is to fill it so that there is too much of something everywhere. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overrun/#m1)
2. To overrun a country is to invade it and take it over with an army. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overrun/#m2)

### In the lessons

in stories a house is overrun with mice, or a land is overrun by war; in talk «the kitchen was overrun with ants»

### Examples

- A certain house was overrun with mice. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overrun/#x1)
- The country was overrun by war. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overrun/#x2)
- Our garden was overrun with weeds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overrun/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

Nahum says God will end Nineveh with an overrunning flood, like a flood or an army that sweeps over it.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads it as God's judgment on a cruel empire, showing that no power lasts if it does evil.

### Examples

- But with an overrunning flood He will make a full end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue His enemies. (Prophets NAM.1.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/overrun/#x1)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «overrun» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overrun/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«overrun» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/overrun.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «overrun» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/overrun/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«overrun» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/overrun.html) on Mova free.