different between overrun vs aswarm

English

Etymology

over- +? run.

Pronunciation

• Verb:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /??v????n/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /o?v????n/
• Noun:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /???v????n/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?o?v????n/

Verb

overrun (third-person singular simple present overruns, present participle overrunning, simple past overran, past participle overrun)

1. To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
2. To infest, swarm over, flow over.

   The vine overran its trellis; the field is overrun with weeds.

   • those barbarous nations that over-ran the world
3. To run past; to run beyond.

   • Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.
4. To continue for too long.

   The performance overran by ten minutes, which caused some people to miss their bus home.

5. (printing) To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
6. 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.

7. To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.

Translations

Noun

overrun (countable and uncountable, plural overruns)

1. An instance of overrunning.
   • 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, "Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):

     Some of the stadiums being built for the World Cup soccer tournament, scheduled for next year, have also been criticized for delays and cost overruns, and have become subjects of derision as protesters question whether they will become white elephants.

2. The amount by which something overruns.

3. (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.

4. (food) Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat.
   • 2004, Wayne Gisslen, Professional Baking (page 497)

     If ice cream has too much overrun, it will be airy and foamy and will lack flavor.

Synonyms

(area beyond a runway end): runway safety area

Translations

Anagrams

• run over, runover

English

Etymology

From a- +? swarm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??sw??(?)m/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m

Adjective

aswarm (comparative more aswarm, superlative most aswarm)

1. Filled or overrun (with moving objects or beings).

   Synonym: swarming

   • 1882, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, “Ben Jonson,” in Tristram of Lyonesse, and other poems, Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1904, p. 309,^[1]

     The mountain where thy Muse’s feet made warm

     Those lawns that revelled with her dance divine

     Shines yet with fire as it was wont to shine

     From tossing torches round the dance aswarm.

   • 1930, Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men, Chapter IV, 3.:^[2]

     Over all the more populous districts the air was ever aswarm with planes up to a height of five miles, where the giant air-liners plied between the continents.

   • 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, “Blood at Midnight”:

     He banished all irrelevancies from his canalised mind. His great ham of a face was tickling as though aswarm with insects, but there was no room left in his brain to receive the messages which his nerve endings were presumably delivering—his brain was full.

References

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/aswarm