Overgrown
[əʊvə'grəʊn;'əʊvəgrəʊn] or [,ovɚ'ɡron]
Definition
(adj.) covered with growing plants .
(adj.) abounding in usually unwanted vegetation .
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Definition
(p. p.) of Overgrow
Edited by Enrico
Examples
- There were villas with iron fences and big overgrown gardens and ditches with water flowing and green vegetable gardens with dust on the leaves. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- A field overgrown with briars and brambles, may frequently produce as great a quantity of vegetables as the best cultivated vineyard or corn field. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is hard to be laughed at in my moments of sentiment, as if my soul was like myself, old and overgrown. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Overgrown with heth and mosse, says Leland of the same dark sweep of country. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Trabb's boy--Trabb's overgrown young man now--went before us with a lantern, which was the light I had seen come in at the door. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- There were two small islands overgrown with bushes and a few trees, towards the middle. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As I walked down to the lake, I saw that the ground on its farther side was damp and marshy, overgrown with rank grass and dismal willows. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The overgrown metropolis, the great heart of mighty Britain, was pulseless. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He was happy in the wet hillside, that was overgrown and obscure with bushes and flowers. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I said to a deck-sweep--but in a low voice: Who is that overgrown pirate with the whiskers and the discordant voice? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Edited by Enrico