Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To grow over with herbage or foliage.
- intransitive verb To grow beyond or too large for.
- intransitive verb To grow beyond normal or usual size.
- intransitive verb To become grown over, as with unwanted vegetation or weeds.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cover with growth or herbage.
- To grow beyond; rise above; grow too big for; outgrow.
- To overcome; weigh down; oppress.
- To grow beyond the fit or natural size.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To grow over; to cover with growth or herbage, esp. that which is rank.
- transitive verb obsolete To grow beyond; to rise above; hence, to overcome; to oppress.
- intransitive verb To grow beyond the fit or natural size; to grow too large.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
grow beyond one's boundaries or containments. - verb transitive To grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb become overgrown
- verb grow beyond or across
- verb grow too large
Etymologies
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Examples
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After a century that produced Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama as examples for how to "overgrow" oppression, the best these people can do is blow themselves and innocent civilians up?
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Nervous attempts to treat it with antibiotics are problematic for two reasons: first, because they often suppress benign bacteria in the gut, thus allowing this E. coli to overgrow and flourish; second because if the E. coli is actually killed by the antibiotic, it releases the toxin and leads to the very complications that doctors are trying to avoid.
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Following, is compiled some tell tale signs that your flash fiction or short story is attempting to flex its literary muscles and overgrow your files and time and demand to become a novel.
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Nervous attempts to treat it with antibiotics are problematic for two reasons: first, because they often suppress benign bacteria in the gut, thus allowing this E. coli to overgrow and flourish; second because if the E. coli is actually killed by the antibiotic, it releases the toxin and leads to the very complications that doctors are trying to avoid.
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They set fire to bramble, seedlings, and fallen twigs, lest this underbrush “overgrow the Country, making it unpassable,” in the words of a contemporary traveler, William Wood.
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The bacterial flora stimulated by any probiotic can overgrow and cause bloating and vaginal irritation.
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For, like a garden, the body is naturally wild, prone to disorder, and the less hedged about it is, the more it symbolizes the power of the people to overgrow their institutional fences.
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They set fire to bramble, seedlings, and fallen twigs, lest this underbrush “overgrow the Country, making it unpassable,” in the words of a contemporary traveler, William Wood.
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For, like a garden, the body is naturally wild, prone to disorder, and the less hedged about it is, the more it symbolizes the power of the people to overgrow their institutional fences.
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They set fire to bramble, seedlings, and fallen twigs, lest this underbrush “overgrow the Country, making it unpassable,” in the words of a contemporary traveler, William Wood.
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