overgrown
Meaning
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- Having large numbers of plants which have become too big, and are hence spoiling the picturesqueness of a garden.
- Having grown bigger without developing maturity or changing character.
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Etymology
From over- + grown.
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overgrow
- To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment, or beyond the proper size.
- To grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing).
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