Overgrown
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
overgrown
adj 1: covered with growing plants
2: abounding in usually unwanted vegetation
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Overgrow \O`ver*grow"\, v. t. [imp. {Overgrew}; p. p.
{Overgrown}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Overgrowing}.]
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1. To grow over; to cover with growth or herbage, esp. that
which is rank; as, dandelions have overgrown the lawn.
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The green . . . is rough and overgrown. --Sir W.
Scott.
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2. To grow beyond; to rise above; hence, to overcome; to
oppress. [Obs.] --Mortimer. "O'ergrown with labor."
--Beau. & Fl.
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Note: [Usually in the past participle.]
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
116 Moby Thesaurus words for "overgrown":
Gargantuan, a bit much, abandoned, abundant, amplitudinous,
astronomical, awesome, blooming, blossoming, boundless, braky,
brambly, budding, bulky, burgeoning, colossal, copsy, cosmic,
covered, crescent, dense, developed, egregious, enormous,
exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extensive, extravagant,
extreme, exuberant, fabulous, fancy, florescent, flourishing,
flowering, full-fledged, full-grown, fully developed, galactic,
gigantic, gluttonous, gross, growing, grown, grown-up, heavy, high,
huge, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, immeasurable, immense, immoderate,
impenetrable, incontinent, infinite, inordinate, intemperate,
jungled, jungly, king-size, large, lush, luxuriant, mammoth,
massive, massy, mature, monster, monstrous, monumental,
mountainous, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, outsize,
outsized, overbig, overdeveloped, overfed, overgreat, overlarge,
overmuch, overrun, oversized, overspread, overweening, overweight,
prodigious, rank, riotous, sizable, spacious, sprouting, steep,
stiff, stupendous, thick, thriving, titanic, too big, too much,
tremendous, unbridled, unconscionable, undue, unreasonable,
unrestrained, unweeded, vast, voluminous, weed-choked, weed-ridden,
weedy, weighty
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