gallop vs overrun

gallop

verb
  • To run at a gallop. 

  • To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination. 

  • To ride at a galloping pace. 

  • To make electrical or other utility lines sway and/or move up and down violently, usually due to a combination of high winds and ice accrual on the lines. 

  • To run very fast. 

  • To progress rapidly through the body. 

  • To cause to gallop. 

noun
  • The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously. 

  • An act or instance of going or running rapidly. 

  • An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop. 

overrun

verb
  • To run past the end of. 

  • To run past; to run beyond. 

  • To infest, swarm over, flow over. 

  • To continue for too long. 

  • To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page. 

  • To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively. 

  • To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon. 

  • To go beyond; to extend in part beyond. 

noun
  • The amount by which something overruns. 

  • An instance of overrunning. 

  • An area of terrain beyond the end of a runway that is kept flat and unobstructed to allow an aircraft that runs off the end of the runway to stop safely. 

  • Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat. 

How often have the words gallop and overrun occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )