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overgrown

/oh-ver-groh, oh-ver-groh/US // ˌoʊ vərˈgroʊ, ˈoʊ vərˌgroʊ //UK // (ˌəʊvəˈɡrəʊ) //

杂草丛生,丛生的,丛生,杂草丛生的

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v.有主动词 verb
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    o·ver·grew, o·ver·grown, o·ver·grow·ing.

    • : to grow over; cover with a growth of something.
    • : to grow beyond, grow too large for, or outgrow.
    • : to outdo in growing; choke or supplant by a more exuberant growth.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    o·ver·grew, o·ver·grown, o·ver·grow·ing.

    • : to grow to excess; grow too large: When the vegetable overgrows, it tends to be woody.
    • : to become grown over, as with weeds: An untended garden will quickly overgrow.

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Examples

  • They overgrow the dwarf stocks very strongly and thus do not have a very firm hold on the ground.

  • The epiblast would necessarily overgrow the yolk uniformly on all sides and not in the unsymmetrical fashion of the Selachian egg.

  • How had this subterranean vegetation contrived to pierce and overgrow the summit of the country?

  • We could not help growing; perhaps we wished to overgrow; but is there no such thing as ungrowing?

  • It is to be feared that this new Madrid will overgrow all that is left of the old city.