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Overgrow v. t. (past overgrew; past part. overgrown; pres. part. overgrowing)

To grow over; to cover with growth or herbage, esp. that which is rank; as, dandelions have overgrown the lawn. "The green... is rough and overgrown."

To grow beyond; to rise above; hence, to overcome; to oppress. (Obs.) "O'ergrown with labor." Note: (Usually in the past participle.)

Overgrow v. i. (past overgrew; past part. overgrown; pres. part. overgrowing) To grow beyond the fit or natural size; to grow too large; as, a huge, overgrown ox.

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... gormandise of Canutus, ordained after their arrival that no table should be covered above once in the day, which Huntingdon imputeth to their avarice; but in the end, either waxing weary of their own frugality, or suffering the cockle of old custom to overgrow the good corn of their new constitution, they fell to such liberty that in often-feeding they surmounted Canutus surnamed the Hardy. For, whereas he covered his table but three or four times in the day, these spread their cloths five or ...

— Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) • Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed

... "How beautifully these trees overgrow the old tower! And see what a solid mass of masonry lies in the great fosse down there, toppled from its base by the explosion of a mine! It is like a rusty helmet cleft in twain, but ...

— Hyperion • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... by this reasoning that we asked in considerable dismay: "But what shall we do? We could not help growing; perhaps we wished to overgrow; but is there no such thing as ungrowing? When the fair, when the sex which we instinctively attribute to cities, finds itself too large in its actuality for a Directoire ideal, there are means, there are methods, of reduction. Is there no remedy, then, for municipal ...

— Imaginary Interviews • W. D. Howells