Overgrow

Quick meaning: Overgrow is a verb meaning (intransitive) To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment, or beyond the proper size.

Meaning

(intransitive) To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment, or beyond the proper size.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing).

Example Sentences

If there is ivy overgrowing things, then we shall clean it up.

One wall advertised a dense muddle of ivy overgrowing its prefab brick, while a miniature moat with a jerry-built bridge arcing over it snaked around one of the "halls" (as real universities dub their constituent structures).

The utmost they aimed at doing was thoroughly to clear the old Church of all the corruptions and superstitions which had disfigured it in the course of ages, and which, like the flaunting ivy overgrowing some ancient building, not only concealed the Church's fair proportions, but shut out the light of heaven from its windows, and more or less dislocated its structure.

Word Forms

• overgrows
• overgrowing
• overgrew
• overgrown

Synonyms for overgrow

Depending on context, synonyms include outgrow.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include outgrow, overrun, overreach, oversize, overstep, overflow.

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