What's the difference between overran and overrun?
Overran
Definition:
(imp.) of Overrun
Example Sentences:
(1) He explains that the violence began after the demo overran its official cut-off time: Violence flared on Tuesday in the centre of Madrid as baton-wielding police charged crowds and fired rubber bullets at demonstrators who had tried to surround the country's parliament building.
(2) Coalition forces led by Saudi Arabia have been conducting a bombing campaign to try to force out rebels from the Houthi sect, who overran the country in March, and restore the previous government.
(3) Fred Abrahams of Human Rights Watch, who is in Tripoli, said anti-tank missiles were among weapons looted by Libyans before anti-Gaddafi militias overran western towns.
(4) The CAR's ousted president, Francois Bozize, a Christian, fled the capital in March as the Seleka, including mercenaries from Chad and Sudan, overran the city.
(5) Arctic Monkeys ' performance was cut from Wednesday night's Jimmy Kimmel Live show after Kanye West 's interview overran its allotted time.
(6) Moore's speech, which overran by almost double its allotted time ("I told them I wouldn't go more than 50% longer than Fidel would normally do"), was well-received by an audience that included a good number of his fellow documentary film-makers.
(7) In June, after Isis overran much of the Sunni areas of Iraq from its base in eastern Syria, Obama ordered US troops back into Iraq, officially in a “non-combat” role.
(8) But they all overran and, given the heat – 87F at noon – and humidity, the crowd's mood began to wane.
(9) Libya , which has been riven by instability since the overthrow of Gaddafi, has had rival administrations since August 2014, when an alliance of Islamist-backed militias overran the capital, Tripoli, forcing the government to take refuge in the east.
(10) The ministry’s spokesman, Satar Nawrouz, said the drops came “just in time.” Tens of thousands of Yazidis have been trapped in the mountains since the Islamic State overran Sinjar.
(11) A key difference between the campaigns against Isis and AQAP is that the former includes coordination from Middle East allies such as Jordan, Saudi Arabia and de facto cooperation with Iran.. Shia rebels who recently overran Sana’a already control the provinces of Saada and Omran north of the capital.
(12) At least 23 Afghan soldiers were killed last week when Taliban militants overran their military posts in Jurm district.
(13) The Iraqi forces were heavily backed by Kurdish peshmerga troops and Shia militiamen, who have been at the vanguard of most clashes in central Iraq ever since Isis overran more than one third of the country in mid-June.
(14) Algerian officials said 11 of the 32 Islamist gunmen who overran the In Amenas gas field last month were Tunisian.
(15) The transport secretary said the problems at King’s Cross had arisen when work overran in a scheme to modernise points and overhead wiring, replacing 1km of track, and involved 14 engineering trains.
(16) This is a dramatic departure from December 2013, when hundreds of fighters overran a Nigerian air force base in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri.
(17) An official in Washington said the Serbs had released all 30 Dutch troops taken hostage before they overran Srebrenica .
(18) Ukrainian officials said their troops overran rebel checkpoints and Slavyansk was now "tightly encircled".
(19) The insurgents said the prisoners included some troops seized this week when they overran the strategic town of Debaltseve, located between Luhansk and the other rebel stronghold of Donetsk.
(20) A bilateral meeting between Cameron and Putin, attended only by their respective national security advisers, overran after being dominated by Syria .
Overrun
Definition:
(p. p.) of Overrun
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To exceed in distance or speed of running; to go beyond or pass in running.
(v. t.) To go beyond; to extend in part beyond; as, one line overruns another in length.
(v. t.) To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
(v. t.) To carry over, or back, as type, from one line or page into the next after, or next before.
(v. t.) To extend the contents of (a line, column, or page) into the next line, column, or page.
(v. i.) To run, pass, spread, or flow over or by something; to be beyond, or in excess.
(v. i.) To extend beyond its due or desired length; as, a line, or advertisement, overruns.
Example Sentences:
(1) Senior executives at Network Rail are likely to be summoned to Westminster to explain the engineering overruns that caused chaos for Christmas travellers over the weekend.
(2) Rather than experiencing a slowdown in its frenetic building sector, however, Kabul is increasingly overrun with precarious apartment blocks.
(3) Meanwhile, rebel-held eastern Aleppo has been overrun by pro-regime forces led by Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian-led Shia militias supported by Russian and Syrian regime aerial bombardment.
(4) On Wednesday the town of Mubi, home to Adamawa State University, was overrun by Boko Haram insurgents and Nigerian soldiers fled, leaving its barracks to be looted of weapons.
(5) The Office of Rail Regulation will launch an investigation into serious travel disruption caused by overrunning engineering works in London , which led to services to and from two major stations being cancelled and chaotic overcrowding at a local station to which some trains were re-routed.
(6) Hagel has said American leaders are open to discussing a safe zone, but creating one isn’t “actively being considered.” Alongside the Egyptian foreign minister, Sameh Shoukry, Kerry said at a news conference in Cairo that Kobani is “one community and it is a tragedy what is happening there.” The primary focus of the fight against the Islamic State group has been in Iraq, where the US is working to help shore up Iraqi security forces, who were overrun in many places by the militants.
(7) Areva of France has recently been on the end of serious criticism over cost-overruns and delays on the reactor it is building in Finland – the first new-build in western Europe for 30 years.
(8) | Chibundu Onuzo Read more Eva Lohse, the president of the German Association of Cities, said on Thursday: “We’re reaching the limits of our capacity.” As tensions mount in some communities over locals’ fears of being overrun, there have been several arson attacks on a number of refugee shelters in recent weeks, with reports at the weekend of a home near Leipzig being shot at on two consecutive nights.
(9) Given the industry's history of massive cost overruns – now being repeated with new reactors in France and Finland – the view that nuclear is more cost-effective than renewables is highly contentious.
(10) Predictions that an open-ended, so-called "free" medical insurance scheme would lead to cost overruns and deterioration of medical services as well as inflationary trends have come true.
(11) Gascoigne overruns the ball in midfield and then lunges with typically naive enthusiasm at Berthold.
(12) Our diplomatic relations suffered a severe setback when our Embassy compounds in Tehran were overrun in 2011 and the Vienna Convention flouted, and when the Iranian Majles voted to downgrade relations with the UK.
(13) Refugee women and children 'beaten, raped and starved in Libyan hellholes' Read more Army spokesman Col Ahmad al-Mismari said the militias had overrun the main airfield at Ras Lanuf, with the army pulling back to avoid damage to oil facilities.
(14) Despite calls for its cancellation because of delays and cost overruns, Sizewell B opens.
(15) Amateur video, the veracity of which could not be confirmed, showed a man and at least three children dead inside a room in Bayda, a neighbouring village overrun by regime forces on Thursday, showing a baby with burned legs and a body stained with blood.
(16) The ORR could, as it has previously, fine Network Rail for overrunning engineering work but customers could end up footing the bill through increased rail fares.
(17) They proved to appear in case of oblique direction in overrunning and the angle of a shred turned back was directed to the side of wheel rotatory movements, i.e.
(18) A 2012 report by the government's audit chamber found about 15bn rubles (about £260m) in "unreasonable" cost overruns in the preparations for the Sochi Olympics.
(19) Hackney Council has actually done a good job of improving the environment and by and large the borough is a fairly good place to live and not nearly as overrun with snotty upper-middle class twits as other gentrified boroughs.
(20) And when I remarked to Thurley that it seemed a shame that Stonehenge was overrun with people while even sites as nearby – and impressive – as Avebury were scarcely visited, he shrugged and said: "People just won't go there," as if this were something entirely beyond his control.