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To run over to grow or spread over in excess to invade and occupy to take possession of as the vine overran its trellis the farm is overrun with witch grass...
Infest
Infest, according to Webster's New World Diction-ary 'infest' means 'to overrun or inhabit in large numbers, usually so as to be harmful or bother-some, swarm in or about'. According to that dictionary an 'insect' means 'any of a large group of small invertebrate animals characterised, in the adult state, by division of the body into head, thorax, and abdomen, three pairs of membranous wings: beetles, bees, flies, wasps, mosquitoes, etc. are insects'. According to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 'worm' means 'a slender, creeping, naked, limbless animal usually brown or reddish with a soft body divided into a series of segments; an earthworm'. According to that dictionary an 'insect' means 'a small invertebrate animal, usually having a body divided into segments, and several pairs of legs, and often winged'. According to Webster's Illustrated Contemporary Dictionary (Encyclopedic Edition), 'infest' means 'to overrun or spread in large numbers so as to be unpleasant or unsafe', St...
Overrunner
One that overruns...
Mussa
Mussa, a moss or marsh ground; or a place where sedges grow; a place overrun with moss....
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