overrunning
逾越,逾越的,逾期未完成的,逾期未完成
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o·ver·ran [oh-ver-ran], /ˌoʊ vərˈræn/, o·ver·run, o·ver·run·ning.
- : to rove over; invade; ravage: a time when looting hordes had overrun the province.
- : to swarm over in great numbers, as animals, especially vermin; infest: The house had been overrun by rats.
- : to spread or grow rapidly over, as plants, especially vines, weeds, etc.: a garden overrun with weeds.
- : to attack and defeat decisively, occupying and controlling the enemy's position; overwhelm.
- : to spread rapidly throughout, as a new idea or spirit: a rekindling of scholarship that had overrun Europe.
- : to run or go beyond, as a certain limit: The new jet overran the landing field.
- : to exceed, as a budget or estimate: to overrun one's allotted time.
- : to run over; overflow: During the flood season, the river overruns its banks for several miles.
- : Printing. to print additional copies of in excess of the original or the usual order.to carry over to another page.
- : Nautical. to sail past by accident. to complete more rapidly than anticipated.
- : to outrun; overtake in running.
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Finally, after multiple delays and budget overruns, the California High Speed Rail Authority’s project aims to begin service around 2029, according to CEO Brian Kelly.
I’ll bet you see the outlet store as a repository for department store overruns, department store offseason items, and a place to get a great bargain.
Despite its successful engine test Thursday, the program has suffered years of setbacks, delays and significant cost overruns.
Construction started in 2017 but mostly stopped in September 2020, after the contractor quit over what it said were 2 ½ years of delays and hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of cost overruns.
In response, Metro Chief Operating Officer Joe Leader said software has been updated in 7000-series trains to help prevent overruns while Metro also installs a similar system in 6000-series trains.
Islands overrun by flawed people, both indigenous and imperialist.
He was one of six children who had been in the Ebola isolation center that had been overrun.
Had they overrun the Iraqi unit,” Dempsey said, “it was a straight shot to the airport.
The episode includes satirical images of crime-ridden, rat-infested slums overrun by child-biting monkeys.
Hospitals, overrun with Ebola patients and low on supplies, are not available for his 8-month pregnant wife.
Before the country was overrun by the white man, they probably inhabited the region bordering on the Mississippi.
Better let France overrun Hanover, for, as we shall possess her colonies, we can force her to surrender it again.
They have been sheltering refugees from every nation that has been devastated and overrun by the mad Huns.