overgrow

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overgrow

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verb overgrows · overgrowing · overgrew · overgrown

intransitive To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment, or beyond the proper size.
transitive To grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing). 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

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@misc{overgrow_2026,
  title = {overgrow},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/overgrow},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}