OVER-RUN Synonyms: 1567 Synonyms & Antonyms for OVER-RUN

synonyms for over-run

On this page you'll find 1567 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to over-run, such as: barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, feral, ferocious, and fierce.

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How to use over-run in a sentence

Many houses would be deserted, and fields became 'over-run with briars, nettles, and other noxious weeds.'

YORKSHIRE PAINTED AND DESCRIBEDGORDON HOME

They were those of the native Britons, the Saxons who had over-run the land, and the Irish missionaries.

LEGENDS OF THE SAXON SAINTSAUBREY DE VERE

But, notwithstanding their enemies, the marmots increase in numbers very quickly, and soon over-run a favourable district.

CHATTERBOX, 1906VARIOUS

T'nowhead was so over-run with children, that such a chance seldom occurred, except on a Sabbath.

AULD LICHT IDYLSJ. M. BARRIE

Steadily but surely the red-coated lines advanced until it was as if they would literally over-run us while we remained inactive.

THE MINUTE BOYS OF BOSTONJAMES OTIS

It is represented as having been of old over-run with serpents; and almost depopulated through their numbers.

A NEW SYSTEM; OR, AN ANALYSIS OF ANTIENT MYTHOLOGY. VOLUME II. (OF VI.)JACOB BRYANT

Thank God, the forts here are still holding out, and the Germans have not yet over-run the countryside.

TWO DARING YOUNG PATRIOTSW. P. SHERVILL

It was an easy thing to over-run the unprepared Belgian soil—but the Belgian spirit is unconquerable.

GOLDEN LADSARTHUR GLEASON AND HELEN HAYES GLEASON

Why't be as poor a place as ye might wish to set eyes on, all over-run with weeds, and frogs, and the like.

THE WANDERER (VOLUME 3 OF 5)FANNY BURNEY

Dewi Dal was a farmer, whose house was over-run with fairies, so that he could not sleep of nights for the noise they made.

BRITISH GOBLINSWIRT SIKES

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