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Overrun

🔄 Synonyms of "Overrun"

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troubledAnxious, worried, careworn.
overflownoun(transitive) To flow over the brim of (a container).
infestverb(transitive) To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers; to plague, harass.
infested(often followed by `with' or used in combination) troubled by or encroached upon in large numbers
plaguedConstantly afflicted or relentlessly attacked (by someone or something).
overproductionnounThe production of more of a commodity than can be used or sold.
brim oververb(intransitive, by extension) To experience a very strong emotion; to be overcome with emotion.
well oververbflow or run over (a limit or brim)
run oververb(transitive, idiomatic) To drive over, causing injury or death.

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run oververb(transitive, idiomatic) To drive over, causing injury or death.
brim oververb(intransitive, by extension) To experience a very strong emotion; to be overcome with emotion.
overproductionnounThe production of more of a commodity than can be used or sold.
overflowverb(transitive) To flow over the brim of (a container).
plaguedConstantly afflicted or relentlessly attacked (by someone or something).
troubledAnxious, worried, careworn.
infestverb(transitive) To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers; to plague, harass.
infested(often followed by `with' or used in combination) troubled by or encroached upon in large numbers
well oververbflow or run over (a limit or brim)
overtakingnounThe act by which one thing overtakes another.
overcomeverb(transitive) To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
overcomingnounThe act by which something is overcome, or surmounted.
swamped(informal) very busy; having too much to do
invadeverb(transitive) To enter by force, usually in order to conquer.
incursionnounAn aggressive movement into somewhere; an invasion in the general sense.
intruded(botany) Intruse.
passedThat has passed a given qualification or examination; qualified.
passverbTo change place.
cloggingnounThe situation of something being clogged.
stretchverb(transitive) To lengthen by pulling.

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