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Overgrow   Listen
verb
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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"Overgrow" Quotes from Famous Books



... "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
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... 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
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Words linked to "Overgrow" :   change state, grow, turn


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