different between overrun vs defeat

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??fi?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English defeten, from Middle English defet (“disfigured”, past participle) and defet (“defect”, noun), see Etymology 2 below.

Verb

defeat (third-person singular simple present defeats, present participle defeating, simple past and past participle defeated)

1. (transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.

   Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.

2. (transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
   • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious

     He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes.

   • 1879, Adolphus Ward, Chaucer, in English Men of Letters

     In one instance he defeated his own purpose.

3. (transitive) To nullify
   • 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England

     The escheators […] defeated the right heir of his succession.

Derived terms

• self-defeating

Synonyms

• vanquish, overcome, beat

Hyponyms

• conquer (defeat and annex); rout, crush, cream (decisive); shutout, zilch (sports, to defeat without permitting any opposing score)

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English defet, from French deffet, desfait, past participle of the verb desfaire (compare modern French défaire), from des- + faire.

Noun

defeat (countable and uncountable, plural defeats)

1. The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.

   Licking their wounds after a temporary defeat, they planned their next move.
2. The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing.

   The inscription records her defeat of the country's enemies in a costly war.

3. Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (law) nullification.
   • 1909, The Southern Reporter, page 250:

     ... is subsequently issued to him, in accordance with his perfect equity thus acquired, by a legal fiction which the law creates for the protection, but not for the defeat, of his title.

   • 2008, Gene Porter, A Daughter of the Land, volume 1 (?ISBN), page 17:

     She could see no justice in being forced into a position that promised to end in further humiliation and defeat of her hopes.

4. (obsolete) Destruction, ruin.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act 4, scene 1:

     and made defeat of her virginity

Antonyms

• victory

Translations

Anagrams

• feated