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Overgrow

verb
(past overgrew; past part. overgrown; pres. part. overgrowing)
1.
Grow too large.
2.
Become overgrown.
3.
Grow beyond or across.  Synonym: grow over.






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"Overgrow" Quotes from Famous Books



... contains most of his mind. Certain aspects of his mind, indeed, may be seen even to better advantage in others of his works; his sentimental side, for instance, in "Clovernook," where he has let his fancy run riot like honeysuckle, and overgrow every thing; his wit in "Time works Wonders," which blazes with epigrams like Vauxhall with lamps. But "A Man made of Money" is the completest of his books as a creation, and the most characteristic in point of style,—is based on a principle which predominated ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various



Words linked to "Overgrow" :   surpass, transcend, exceed, grow, turn, change state



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