overrun

overrun
v
1. invade, attack, irrupt, assail, assault, strike at; penetrate, cross frontiers, march into, march against, thrust at, storm, blitz, blitzkrieg; besiege, beset, ravage, terrorize, vandalize, maraud; spoil, despoil, scour, scourge; plunder, loot, strip, sack, rob, raid, pillage, devastate, lay waste.
2. spread through, overspread, grow over, cover, mantle; fill, glut, engulf, infest, saturate, supersaturate, inundate; load, choke, clog, flourish, grow wild, Inf. run amuck, Inf. run riot, overwhelm, spread like wildfire.
3. overwhelm, crush, suppress, subdue, quell, quash, put down, squelch, scotch; vanquish, overcome, overpower, ride roughshod over, Inf. crush under the heel, trample, conquer; oppress, harass, persecute, plague.
4. exceed, transcend, surmount, surpass, go beyond, run beyond, overshoot; overpass, overreach, extend past, overextend.
5. overflow, slop over, run over, spill, spill over

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