Definition of overgrown
: grown abnormally or excessively large
- dismissed him as an overgrown adolescent
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Examples of overgrown in a Sentence
The garden is overgrown with weeds.
He acts like an overgrown child.
Recent Examples of overgrown from the Web
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Famous for hosting the PGA Championship in 1968, the property is now unrecognizable as a golf course, its fairways overgrown with weeds and its cart paths half-covered with dead yellow grass.
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Ray is a loving overgrown kid, Mom is long gone, and Charley goes for long runs by himself.
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Yet its grounds along Lanvale Street are often overgrown with vegetation.
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By the time Maria hit, wooden power poles were rotted, transmission towers had rusted through and overgrown trees menaced thousands of miles of power lines.
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Too many plants jammed into a composition that looks fabulous in May can lead to an overgrown jungle by August.
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Cars sit in driveways half-hidden by overgrown weeds.
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Hoping that the people making the noise might be receptive to trimming a few overgrown trees and weeds, Mr. Kay set off to find the source.
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So, instead of going after people with jet skis in front of their lawn or overgrown weeds in their front yard, the city began to target bigger fish.
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First Known Use of overgrown
14th century
OVERGROWN Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of overgrown for English Language Learners
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: covered with plants that have grown in an uncontrolled way
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: grown to a size that is unusually or too large
OVERGROWN Defined for Kids
overgrown
Definition of overgrown for Students
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: grown too big
- overgrown boys
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: covered with plants that have grown in an uncontrolled way
- an overgrown path
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