| Main Entry: | overrun |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | defeat, invade |
Synonyms: |
beat, clobber, drub, foray, inroad, lambaste, lick*, massacre, occupy, overwhelm, put to flight, raid, rout, swamp*, thrash, trim, whip |
Antonyms: |
lose, surrender |
| Main Entry: | overrun |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | infest, spread over; exceed |
Synonyms: |
beset, choke, deluge, go beyond, inundate, invade, overflow, overgrow, overshoot, overspread, overstep, overwhelm, permeate, ravage, run on, run over, spill, spread like wildfire, surge, surpass, swarm, well over |
Antonyms: |
evacuate, retreat |
| Main Entry: | beset |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plague; hem in |
Synonyms: |
aggress, assail, attack, badger, bedevil, beleaguer, besiege, bug*, circle*, compass, dog*, drive up the wall, embarrass, encircle, enclose, encompass, entangle, environ, fall on, fall upon, girdle, give a bad time, give a hard time, give one the business, give the needle, harass, harry, hassle, infest, invade, jump on one's case, nag, nudge, overrun, perplex, pester, pick on, put the squeeze on, ride, ring, start in on, storm, strike, surround |
| Main Entry: | conquer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | win; obtain |
Synonyms: |
achieve, acquire, annex, best, master, occupy, overcome, overrun, prevail, seize, succeed, triumph |
Antonyms: |
forfeit, lose, surrender |
| Main Entry: | defeat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conquer in military manner |
Synonyms: |
ambush, annihilate, bar, bear down, beat, best, block, butcher, crush, decimate, demolish, discomfit, drown, entrap, finish off, halt, hinder, impede, lick, mow down, obliterate, obstruct, outflank, outmaneuver, overpower, overrun, overthrow, overwhelm, parry, prevail over, quell, reduce, repel, repress, repulse, roll back, rout, route, sack, scatter, shipwreck, sink, slaughter, smash, subdue, subjugate, suppress, surmount, swamp, torpedo, trample, trash, upset, vanquish, whip, wipe out |
| Notes: | decimate means to kill or destroy in large numbers; defeat means to win a victory over or to beat |
Antonyms: |
give up, lose, surrender |
| Main Entry: | deluge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inundate with water |
Synonyms: |
douse, drench, drown, engulf, flood, flush, gush, overflow, overrun, overwhelm, pour, sluice, soak, sop, souse, stream, submerge, swamp, wet, whelm |
| Main Entry: | deluge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | overwhelm |
Synonyms: |
abound, crowd, engulf, flood, glut, inundate, overcome, overcrowd, overload, overrun, oversupply, snow under, snow*, swamp, teem |
| Main Entry: | eclipse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | surpass achievement |
Synonyms: |
exceed, excel, outdo, outshine, overrun, surmount, tower above, transcend |
Antonyms: |
fall behind |
| Main Entry: | engulf |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | absorb, overwhelm |
Synonyms: |
bury, consume, deluge, drown, encompass, engross, envelop, flood, imbibe, immerse, inundate, overflow, overrun, overwhelm, plunge, submerge, swallow up, swamp, whelm |
| Main Entry: | excess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overabundance of something |
Synonyms: |
balance, by-product, enough, exorbitance, exuberance, fat, fulsomeness, glut, inundation, lavishness, leavings, leftover, luxuriance, nimiety, overdose, overflow, overkill, overload, overmuch, overrun, oversupply, overweight, plenty, plethora, profusion, recrement, redundance, redundancy, refuse, remainder, residue, rest, spare, superabundance, supererogation, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, the limit, too much of a good thing, too much*, waste, wastefulness |
Antonyms: |
dearth, deficiency, insufficiency, lack, need, poverty, shortcoming, want |