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Definition of Overruns
1. overrun [v] - See also: overrun
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overruns
Literary usage of Overruns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1875)
"... picture.1 He is Nerra charged with wasting the revenues of his see in grants
overruns £0 fulk of Anjou and to Burchard Count of Vendome, Maine. ..."
2. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"... taken—Battle of Espinosa—Flight from Reynosa—Soult overruns the Montana dp St.
Ander, and scours Leon—Napoleon fixes his ..."
3. History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella by William Hickling Prescott (1885)
"GONSALVO overruns CALABRIA. 1498—1502. Louis XII.'s Designs on Italy.—Alarm of
the Spanish Court.—Bold Conduct of its Minister at Rome. ..."
4. The History of British India by James Mill (1848)
"Hyder takes Arcot, and overruns the greater part of the country.— Lord Macartney,
Governor of Fort St. George. ..."
5. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest. With by William Smith (1897)
"Alexander overruns Asia Minor. The Gordian knot. § 10. March through Cilicia.
Battle of Issus. Victory. §11. Conquest of Phoenicia. Siege of Tyre. §12. ..."
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