Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“overran” is a form of

overrun

UK /ˌəʊ.vəˈɹʌn/ · US /ˌoʊ.vɚˈɹʌn/ verb, noun

Forms overruns overrunning overran over-run

  1. verb (transitive) To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
  2. verb (transitive) To infest, swarm over, flow over. “The cathedral square was overrun with tourists.”
  3. verb (transitive) To run past; to run beyond. “The athlete overran the finish line and kept going.”
  4. verb (transitive) To run past the end of. “The aircraft didn't stop in time and overran the runway.”
  5. verb (intransitive) To continue for too long. “The performance overran by ten minutes, which caused some people to miss their bus home.”
  6. verb (printing, transitive) To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
  7. verb (transitive) To go beyond; to extend in part beyond. “In machinery, a sliding piece is said to overrun its bearing when its forward end goes beyond it.”
  8. verb (transitive) To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
  9. noun An instance of overrunning.
  10. noun (printing) A turnover: a break to a new line by text flowing within the column.
  11. noun The amount by which something overruns. “At least this year's overrun isn't as unmanageable as last year!”
  12. noun (aviation) An area of terrain beyond the end of a runway that is kept flat and unobstructed to allow an aircraft that runs off the end of the runway to stop safely. “The runway has 7,000 feet of paved surface, plus a 2,000-foot grass overrun.”
  13. noun (food) Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat.

Synonyms

run over runover runway safety area stopway overproduction infest invade overflow well over brim over

Etymology

From over- + run.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To run over; to grow or spread over in excess; to invade and occupy; to take possession of; as, the vine overran its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass.
  2. verb To exceed in distance or speed of running; to go beyond or pass in running.
  3. verb To run, pass, spread, or flow over or by something; to be beyond, or in excess.
  4. verb To extend beyond its due or desired length; as, a line, or advertisement, overruns.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “overrun”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “overrun” (best matches first).

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