Overrun Synonyms and Antonyms

ōvər-rŭn
To infest
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. infest
  2. invade
  3. exceed
  4. ravage
  5. overwhelm
  6. swarm
  7. overreach
  8. crush
  9. defeat
  10. devastate
  11. overstep
  12. infringe
  13. inundate
  14. surpass
  15. massacre
  16. transcend
  17. raid
  18. teem
Antonyms:
  1. retreat
  2. evacuate
An amount or quantity beyond what is needed, desired, or appropriate
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. excess
  2. fat
  3. glut
  4. overage
  5. overflow
  6. overmuch
  7. overproduction
  8. overstock
  9. oversupply
  10. superfluity
  11. surplus
  12. surplusage

Words Related to Overrun

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. attack
  2. enter
  3. over-run

Overrun Sentence Examples

  • What the Spaniards had then overrun from Mexico to Chile is still Spanish America.

  • Italy at this time began to be overrun by bands of soldiers of fortune.

  • In the latter part of the decade1850-1859the territories adjacent to California on the east, north and south were overrun by thousands of miners from the Sierra Nevada goldfields, and within a few years an extraordinary number of discoveries were made, some of which proved to be of great importance.

  • A Prussian reserve corps under the grand duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, formed at Leipzig, had meanwhile overrun eastern Bavaria up to Nuremberg.

  • His descendants ruled in the country until about 1500, when it was overrun by the Uzbeg Tatars, under Abulkhair or Ebulkheir Khan, the founder of the Shaibani dynasty, with which the history of Bokhara properly commences.

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