overgrown
adjective
over·grown
ˌō-vər-ˈgrōn 
: grown abnormally or excessively large
dismissed him as an overgrown adolescent
Examples of overgrown in a Sentence
The garden is overgrown with weeds.
He acts like an overgrown child.
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The front of your house might be full of overgrown evergreens.
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Chris McKeown, Cincinnati Enquirer, 17 Jan. 2026
The corridor cuts through the center of Santee, in an area where houses intersect with overgrown vegetation.
—Hannah Elsmore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
After taking a picture of an unusually overgrown kapok tree—which, my neighbors later told me, was near a property owned by a high-ranking government official’s daughter—plainclothes officers approached me.
—Armando Ledezma, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
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—Judy Berman, Time, 13 Jan. 2026
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Chris McKeown, Cincinnati Enquirer, 17 Jan. 2026
The corridor cuts through the center of Santee, in an area where houses intersect with overgrown vegetation.
—Hannah Elsmore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
After taking a picture of an unusually overgrown kapok tree—which, my neighbors later told me, was near a property owned by a high-ranking government official’s daughter—plainclothes officers approached me.
—Armando Ledezma, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
Advertisement The show also falls prey to a few unfortunate streaming-era trends, from a penultimate flashback episode that delays the payoff of a cliffhanger by filling in backstory of questionable utility, to a scantness of plot that makes the whole short season feel like an overgrown prologue.
—Judy Berman, Time, 13 Jan. 2026
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“Overgrown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overgrown. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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