overrunning
Spreading beyond limits
Overrunning is exceeding limits or boundaries.
A project overrunning its budget costs more than planned.
An army overrunning a position captures it by force of numbers.
Weeds overrunning a garden spread uncontrollably.
Water overrunning banks spills beyond them.
The meeting is overrunning by twenty minutes.
Overwhelming surge of water
- overflowExceed capacity and spill
- spilloverExcess that escapes
- delugeSevere overflow of water
- surgeSudden powerful increase
spate · swamping · engulfing · submerging · flash flood · monsoon · high water · runoff
Going beyond in quality
- outstrippingGoing beyond in speed
- outpacingExceeding another's speed
- overshootingExceeding an intended limit
- oversteppingExceeding appropriate bounds
overreaching · overextending · exceeding · going over · busting · breaching · breaking · crossing
Gathering in large numbers
- infestingInvading in harmful numbers
- plaguingAfflicting persistently
- teemingAbundantly full of
- crawling withHeavily infested by
spreading · proliferating · overwhelming · pests · vermin · weeds · invasive species · rodents
One's regular paid work
- conquestDefeating and seizing control
- incursionHostile territorial penetration
- siegeEncirclement forcing surrender
- assaultViolent offensive act
raid · encroachment · annexation · subjugation · colonization · blitzkrieg · onslaught · territorial expansion
inundation
Overwhelming surge of water
surge · spate · swamping · engulfing · submerging · flash flood · monsoon · high water · runoff · floodplain
surpassing
Going beyond in quality
- outstrippingGoing beyond in speed
- outpacingExceeding another's speed
- overshootingExceeding an intended limit
overstepping · overreaching · overextending · exceeding · going over · busting · breaching · breaking · crossing · passing
swarming
Gathering in large numbers
crawling with · spreading · proliferating · overwhelming · pests · vermin · weeds · invasive species · rodents · locusts
occupation
One's regular paid work
- conquestDefeating and seizing control
- incursionHostile territorial penetration
- siegeEncirclement forcing surrender
assault · raid · encroachment · annexation · subjugation · colonization · blitzkrieg · onslaught · territorial expansion · hostile takeover
- meeting problemsno decisions, interrupting, rambling, off-topic, tangents
- swarm wordsbees, ants, locusts, wasps, termites
overrunningcontaining
Holding within limits
bounded · holding back · restraining · confining · limiting
overrunningevacuating
Leaving a dangerous area
abandoning · yielding · defending · retreating · withdrawing
runner, running, overrun, outrun, rundown, forerunner, rerun, outrunning, forerun