To run over in speech or in thought; traverse; go over.To run or spread over; grow over; cover all over; extend over or throughout; be propagated throughout.To harass by hostile incursions; overcome and take possession of by invasion.To outrun; run faster than (another) and leave (him) behind.To run beyond; exceed; especially, to go beyond some prescribed or recognized limit, as of space or time.To run over or run down; tread down; over-whelm; crash by superior force.In printing, to extend, as composed types, beyond the limit first determined; carry over (words or lines) to the next line, column, or page.To become superabundant or excessive; overflow; run over.To extend beyond the due or desired length, as a line or page in printing, or beyond any prescribed or desired limit, as in the paying out of a line from a reel, etc.n. In printing, composed type run over into the next line or page, to make space for something else, etc. See overrun, v. t., 7.