overrun
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
too much production or more than expected
Types & categories
- production hypernym
Related & opposite
- overproduce derivation
- overproduce derivation
- overflow derivation
Sense 2 verb
invade in great numbers
the roaches infested our kitchen
Types & categories
- invade hypernym
Related & opposite
- infestation derivation
- infestation derivation
Sense 3 verb
occupy in large numbers or live on a host
the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North
Types & categories
- inhabit hypernym
Related & opposite
- intrusion derivation
- infestation derivation
- infestation derivation
Sense 4 verb
flow or run over (a limit or brim)
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- overflow derivation
- overproduction derivation
- runoff derivation
- course entails
Sense 5 verb
seize the position of and defeat
the Crusaders overran much of the Holy Land
Types & categories
- defeat hypernym
Sense 6 verb
run beyond or past
The plane overran the runway
Types & categories
- overshoot hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | overproduce |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | overproduce |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | overflow |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | production |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | infestation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | infestation |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | invade |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | intrusion |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | infestation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | infestation |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | inhabit |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | overflow |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | overproduction |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | runoff |
| 4 | entails | Related & opposite | course |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | spill |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | geyser |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | defeat |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | overshoot |