ō'vər-răn'
To win victory over; overcome; beat
(Obs.) To produce offspring; bear
To act as a swarm in surrounding, attacking, dealing with, etc.
To destroy violently; ruin
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To overpower emotionally.
(Informal) To defeat decisively.
To overwhelm as if with a flood; swamp:
(Obsolete) To defeat; invalidate.
To be greater than, as in number or degree; surpass:
To devastate is defined as to destroy or ruin something or to cause someone to be overwhelmed with grief.
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To press, grind, or pound into small particles or into powder
To hold or fill (an office or position).
To transcend is exceed or to go past defined limits.
To exceed in quantity, degree, amount, etc.
To go beyond (a limit); exceed:
To strike the forefoot with the hind foot
retreated (antonym)
To retreat is to withdraw or back away, especially from a dangerous or unpleasant situation or from a military engagement.
surrendered (antonym)
To surrender is defined as to give up control of something or to give something up to another.
lost (antonym)
To wander from or become ignorant of:
entered (related)
In real property, to pass upon or into; of litigation, to file or present to the court—for example, to enter an appearance into the record; of a contract, to enter into it means to sign or execute it.
Find another word for overran. In this page you can discover 26 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for overran, like: infested, invaded, overflowed, defeated, teemed, swarmed, ravaged, raided, overwhelmed, massacred and inundated.
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