Overgrown Definition

ōvərgrōn
adjective
Overspread with foliage.
Webster's New World
Grown excessively or beyond normal size.
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Having large numbers of plants which have become too big, and are hence spoiling the picturesqueness of a garden.

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(In the form "An overgrown X") Something which has grown bigger but has not changed its character.

He spends so much money on new technology, he's like an overgrown schoolboy buying toys.
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verb

Past participle of overgrow.

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Overgrown Sentence Examples

  • They are now overgrown with luxuriant vegetation.

  • From the window a flower box was visible, overgrown with weeds.

  • He was, however, disappointed in this, as after descending the course of the Macquarie below Mount Harris, he found that the river ended in an immense swamp overgrown with reeds.

  • Unlike the dead cities of the Yucatan plains, Palenque is surrounded by wooded hills and overgrown by tropical vegetation.

  • The ruins of the city wall, now overgrown with jungle, show it to have been a square with a side of about three-quarters of a mile in length.

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