Overrun is valid Scrabble Word

Is overrun a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is overrun valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for OVERRUN in dictionary:

VERB:

to swarm over
spread over or occupy (a place) in large numbers
move or extend over or beyond
run over or beyond
rotate faster than (another part of a machine)
continue beyond or above an expected or allowed time or cost
conquer rapidly
To run over; to grow or spread over in excess; to invade and occupy; to take possession of; as, the vine overran its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass.
To exceed in distance or speed of running; to go beyond or pass in running.
To go beyond; to extend in part beyond; as, one line overruns another in length.

To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
To carry over, or back, as type, from one line or page into the next after, or next before.
To extend the contents of (a line, column, or page) into the next line, column, or page.
To run, pass, spread, or flow over or by something; to be beyond, or in excess.
To extend beyond its due or desired length; as, a line, or advertisement, overruns.
invade in great numbers
occupy in large numbers or live on a host
flow or run over (a limit or brim)
seize the position of and defeat
run beyond or past

NOUN:

an instance of something exceeding an expected or allowed time or cost
the movement or extension of something beyond an expected or allotted position
a clear area beyond the end of a runway
the movement of a vehicle at a speed greater than is imparted by the engine
too much production or more than expected
act or an instance of overrunning

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to spread or swarm over

Words related to OVERRUN

overran10 overren10 overrun10 overrunning15 overruns11

Words that contain OVERRUN

overruns11 overrunner13 overrunners14 overrunning15

How to use OVERRUN in a sentence

The countryside, too, in my opinion, would be more peaceful of a summer afternoon were it not overrun with dogs.
In the spring of 1860, the South was literally overrun with goods.
While waiting for an appointment, Li heard with dismay that Nanking had been taken by a body of rebels, and that his native province was in danger of being overrun by them.
On the other hand, I see France overrun by the Germans very much as she was in 1870.
Not very long before a similar Celtic swarm had in an exactly similar way overrun Greece.
It is indeed a dirty low pride, that has swallowed up the true pride which should have set him above the vanity that has overrun him.
Cruel and ignorant, like their Gothic kindred, who had but lately overrun the Roman empire, they came, not for the good of others, but to accommodate themselves.
Though steadfast in his course, it was not to overrun others, his wise self-possession was no less for them than himself.
On the third day, an alarm was spread that the enemy had again over-run the country, and might shortly be expected at the gates.
The bare brick paths were overrun with the green of growing things.

About the same time he had also had a war with the Khazars, had overrun their country, wasted it with fire and sword, and massacred thousands of the inhabitants.
Commagene was completely overrun, and the territory was attached to the Assyrian empire.
Belisarius, in the meantime, was sent to fight with the king of Persia, Chosroes, a very warlike prince, who had overrun Syria and carried off many prisoners from Antioch.
By sheer weight of numbers these trenches were overrun and the German infantry poured through the gap.
Russia had overrun Galicia and the Allies had conquered the Germany colony of Togoland in Africa.
The country, they felt assured, would soon be overrun with the state troops.
This prevents the reel from spinning and causing the line to overrun.
The greatest humiliation and the worst suffering followed, however, for the Italian people who were left behind in the provinces overrun by the victorious Austrians and Germans.
But she walked far enough to have overrun it, and was yet upon unfamiliar ground.
Every day new units arrived, and the country appeared to be overrun with troops.
Representatives of all the races that had overrun Spain were there gathered, speaking a dozen dialects, yet instinct with a single spirit.
The Delta was overrun by swarms of barbarians, who pitched their tents in front of Belbeis at the western end of the land of Goshen.
Western Asia was overrun, tribute was received from the Hittites and from Phoenicia, and Armenia was devastated by the Assyrian forces as far north as Lake Van.
The act was hardly a wise one, for, though he had saved Winchester and the surrounding country from being overrun by the Indians, he was not popular.
The Caribs had not overrun the island of Hayti, but it was never free from their incursions.
My history of the affair at Glenarm has overrun the bounds I had set for it, and these, I submit, are not days for the desk and pen.
The mischief began at Rome, it has over-run all Italy, and is now, with rapid strides, spreading through the provinces.
I can well conceive a country completely overrun, and miserably wasted, without approaching in the least to settlement.
Renwick and given to the author, had grown and well overrun it, the house, in the midst of sheltering groves and secluded walks, was as pretty a retreat as a poet could desire.
The hack presently stopped before a high iron gate in a waist-high brick wall with a spiked iron railing on top of it, the whole overrun with weeds and creepers.

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