overgrow
About 0.04 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment, or beyond the proper size.
- verb To grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing).
Similar words
outgrow grow over overrun overreach oversize overstep overflow forwax overexpand exceed
Often followed by
the and in it their them with a other
Word family
overgrew overgrowing overgrown overgrows overgrowth overgrowths
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