Busy
Overrun
Overrun verb - To enter for conquest or plunder.
Common collocations
| time | busy time | overrun time |
Both words in one sentence
- In the alternate wish-verse the Master's plan from the pilot worked, and while Sunnydale was overrun she was busy in desperate battles in Chicago.
Source: Walking Disaster Area - While you're busy trying to save your tiny nation from being entirely overrun and/or razed by The Empire, he's more concerned with earning his Field Marshall star...
Source: Glory Hound - Also overrun games and matches from lower-tier conferences air here just in case even ESPNU isn't enough to contain a busy day of sports action across the regular ESPNs and ESPN Deportes.
Source: Network Decay / Slipped
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