Overrun
Overrun verb - To enter for conquest or plunder.
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They quickly overrun Seattle and Tacoma and spread out inland as the Americans, who have most of their troops in Europe, struggle to stop them.
Source: Storming the Beaches - As the game goes on, the infection will spread, the quarantine lines will either expand outward or be overrun, and more areas of the map will thus become open for player exploration.
Source: Video Game / Project Zomboid -
Downer Ending: London has been decimated once again by the virus and the subsequent firebombing, all of the thousands of London settlers have been horribly killed, and the Infected have overrun France, meaning they'll probably spread to much of the Continent.
Source: Film / 28 Weeks Later
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