Forgrow

Quick meaning: Forgrow is a verb meaning (intransitive, obsolete) To grow to excess or out of shape; grow unduly.

Meaning

(intransitive, obsolete) To grow to excess or out of shape; grow unduly.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To become grown over; overgrow; become covered with growth (usually one that is excessive or unsightly).

Example Sentences

Plutarch saith that mens minds do rust and forgrow through idlenes […]

A terror to the new made folke, which neuer erst had knowne So foule a Dragon in their life, so monstrously foregrowne, So great a ground thy poyson paunch did vnderneath thée hide.

And after the floode was passed & Noy and his housholde come out of the arke, the worlde beyng deuided among his thre sonnes, Sem, Cham, and Iaphethe, and that the people began eftsones to multiplye and increase, the worlde was so forgrowen in wickednes, that there was none found, that truely worshipped god […]

Word Forms

• forgrows
• forgrowing
• forgrew
• forgrown

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include undergrow, overshrink, degrow, warp, ungrow, deform.

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