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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Overgrow \O`ver*grow"\, v. t. [imp. {Overgrew}; p. p.
{Overgrown}; p. pr & vb n. {Overgrowing}.]
1. To grow over to cover with growth or herbage, esp. that
which is rank.
The green . . . is rough and overgrown. --Sir W.
Scott.
2. To grow beyond; to rise above; hence to overcome; to
oppress. [Obs.] --Mortimer. ``O'ergrown with labor.''
--Beau. & Fl [Usually in the past participle.]
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
overgrown
adj 1: covered with growing plants
2: abounding in usually unwanted vegetation
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