Verb (used without object) : When the vegetable overgrows, it tends to be woody. ,An untended garden will quickly overgrow. From Dictionary.com.
Lush jungle practically overgrew the plastic walls. From Wordnik.com. [Orphan Star]
This close, the vines which overgrew it had a powerful herbal smell. From Wordnik.com. [The Waste Lands]
The lawn overgrew what remained of the brick edging along the front walk. From Wordnik.com. [Mary, Mary]
No vines overgrew its sides; no graffiti daubed its blinding white walls and steps and columns. From Wordnik.com. [The Waste Lands]
His soft boots scuffed the long grass that overgrew the edges of the broken pavement of the ancient road. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
Tall grass overgrew the mine sites, and the mine equipment began to rust and crumble as the years wore on. From Wordnik.com. [THE STORY OF THE KINKASEKI MEMORIAL] Reference
Your hatred68 of your father was of such stature that it entirely outstripped, overgrew, and overshadowed your love of me. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference
"Oh, this is the life!" cried Grace, as Nabob stepped daintily over the rocks and underbrush that almost completely overgrew the narrow path. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run] Reference
Conan saw that the rocks on either side of the pool sparkled with gemlike bright bits, and a soft cushion of blue lichen overgrew one of them. From Wordnik.com. [Conan and The Mists of Door]
He and Rollo had been first soused in the river, then rubbed with tomatoes from the burgeoning vines that overgrew the necessary house out back. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
“We should take this all out,” he says, nodding at the crumbling leaves, the tomato plants that long ago overgrew their stakes and now trail the dirt. From Wordnik.com. [Harvest] Reference
We stood side by side for a time then, watching tiny spatters of fine sleet dashing against the sandstone and the thick brown grass that overgrew the kirkyard. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
As with all such gentle writers, his page sometimes betrayed a vestige of affectation, but, the next moment, a rich, natural luxuriance overgrew and buried it out of sight. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
The rank vegetation of the jungle overgrew the cultivated ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Son of Tarzan] Reference
If roses overgrew the wheat, we should dub them weeds, and root them out. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century] Reference
Already, too, weeds and briers overgrew the land which had been cleared for corn. From Wordnik.com. [This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States] Reference
Ivy overgrew this; below a wide and ragged breach a pine had set its roots in the hillside. From Wordnik.com. [Foes] Reference
Running rose-bushes, just leafing out into their fall greenery, overgrew the pillars beside her. From Wordnik.com. [The Readjustment] Reference
The one which lived for the longest time became quite large and overgrew the stock of the wild hazel. From Wordnik.com. [Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin] Reference
Certain businesses overgrew over the years and now they have to reorganize their own world to adjust to their size. From Wordnik.com. [Hello Company] Reference
It overgrew and encroached so much on to the pedestrian portion that walkers and joggers were forced onto the bicycle lanes. From Wordnik.com. [LAist] Reference
It showed no variation but of tint: green, where rush and moss overgrew the marshes; black, where the dry soil bore only heath. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. II.] Reference
Those details overgrew, if one may so express it, the original trunk of the story itself as fungi grow over the stump of a tree. From Wordnik.com. [Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories] Reference
Huge creepers depended in great loops from tree to tree, dense under-brush overgrew a tangled mass of fallen trunks and branches. From Wordnik.com. [At the Earth's Core] Reference
The night was closing in apace as I and my three Malay companions pushed our way through the underwood which overgrew the narrow wood path. From Wordnik.com. [In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula] Reference
A climbing Banksia rose overgrew the sill and ran up the mullions, its clusters of nankeen buds stirred by the breeze and nodding against the pale sunset sky. From Wordnik.com. [Shining Ferry] Reference
Vegetables we have none, except a so-called wild spinach that overgrew every neglected garden, and could be had for the taking until people discovered how precious it was. From Wordnik.com. [Four Months Besieged The Story of Ladysmith] Reference
An arched doorway had opened from the house into this darkened square, but it was soiled and dusty; and the damp weeds that overgrew the quadrangle drooped undisturbed against it. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh] Reference
A gate, and eat some of the grass that overgrew the lane. From Wordnik.com. [We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys] Reference
Dock and thistles overgrew the yard. From Wordnik.com. [Best Russian Short Stories] Reference
Germs, your untrimm'd passion overgrew?. From Wordnik.com. [Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold] Reference
Its beautiful affections overgrew. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
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