overgrow

Object

• shrubbery: We pass a washing line of black tee shirts strung across overgrown shrubbery.
• hedge: The field next to the Chapel had an overgrown hedge over the pavement which needed cutting back.
• hedgerow: Field boundaries are either estate fencing or overgrown hedgerows, usually of oak or ash.
• incisor: To the right is a picture of a rabbit with overgrown incisors which do not meet properly.
• vegetation: There is overgrown vegetation on a path I use.
• schoolboy: The world is an exciting and confusing place for Jeremy Clarkson - a man who can find the overgrown schoolboy in us all.

Preposition: with

• ivy: The church is a small edifice partly overgrown with ivy.
• bramble: The path went up through paddock and field climbing to almost 600 feet and ending at a gash of rubble overgrown with bramble.
• nettle: It is just passable but heavily overgrown with nettles and brambles.
• weed: The dolls are placed permanently on the shelf The sand box becomes overgrown with weeds.
• reed: A significant task was dredging the eastern end of the lake, which had become heavily silted and overgrown with reeds.
• scrub: Whilst further north a former waste tip has overgrown with scrub.

Modifying Another Word

• heavily: Heavily overgrown on my visit in 1997, the site has now been cleared by a very enthusiastic local group.
• somewhat: Carriage sidings, still extant beyond the fine signal box, are somewhat overgrown.
• badly: Wall tops badly overgrown, interior inaccessible with no obvious entrance.
• completely: Where the canal has become completely overgrown upstream a small number of dominant species have taken over.
• partly: The church is a small edifice partly overgrown with ivy.
• rather: In high summer both alternatives tend to get rather overgrown.

Preposition: by

• vegetation: The doline was overgrown by vicious vegetation with thorns up to an inch long.

Preposition: in

• summer: Places which are overgrown in summer may now reveal their secrets!