verb
definition
To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment, or beyond the proper size.
definition
To grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing).
adjective
definition
Having large numbers of plants which have become too big, and are hence spoiling the picturesqueness of a garden.
definition
Having grown bigger without developing maturity or changing character.
example
He spends so much money on new technology: he's like an overgrown schoolboy buying toys.
Examples of overgrown in a Sentence
They are now overgrown with luxuriant vegetation.
From the window a flower box was visible, overgrown with weeds.
He was, however, disappointed in this, as after descending the course of the Macquarie below Mount Harris, he found that the river ended in an immense swamp overgrown with reeds.
Unlike the dead cities of the Yucatan plains, Palenque is surrounded by wooded hills and overgrown by tropical vegetation.
The ruins of the city wall, now overgrown with jungle, show it to have been a square with a side of about three-quarters of a mile in length.
The local headman pointed out to us an overgrown site telling the tale that it was a Japanese war cemetery.
In some cases these are overgrown by well crystallized hemimorphite.
To the right is a picture of a rabbit with overgrown incisors which do not meet properly.
The causes for overgrown claws are often quite simple.
The structure is heavily overgrown although the observation cupola is clearly visible from the footpath.
Just under two years ago, the Center was virtually derelict inside an overgrown eyesore of a garden.
We tackle environmental eyesores such as graffiti, litter and overgrown vegetation helping to make Dartford a cleaner place to live.
Tall metal lampposts appeared centrally on the island and the vacant land on the ''up ' ' side became even more overgrown.
The river spills over into the overgrown millrace and, very slowly, the old waterwheel starts to turn.
However dippers are very early nesters and often chose bridges or waterfalls or steep overgrown banks for their nest sites.
The route was illegally obstructed and overgrown with brambles and other vegetation.
Carriage sidings, still extant beyond the fine signal box, are somewhat overgrown.
Wall tops badly overgrown, interior inaccessible with no obvious entrance.
Where the canal has become completely overgrown upstream a small number of dominant species have taken over.
The church is a small edifice partly overgrown with ivy.
In high summer both alternatives tend to get rather overgrown.
When he had ascended the hill and reached the little village street, he saw for the first time peasant militiamen in their white shirts and with crosses on their caps, who, talking and laughing loudly, animated and perspiring, were at work on a huge knoll overgrown with grass to the right of the road.
The land would get overgrown with brush in the summer if I didn't have the goats to keep it cleared off.
Muldrow had said the land was overgrown with edible plants.
When Cicero was quaestor in Sicily (75 B.C.), he found the tomb of Archimedes, near the Agrigentine gate, overgrown with thorns and briers.
The crater is densely overgrown with oaks and beeches which harbour wild boars and wolves.
It appears partly blended with Buddhism, partly overgrown with a belief in Kalas, or evil spirits.
The history of Cyrus very soon became involved and quite overgrown with legends.
But now a third war began, the old associates of Antigonus, alarmed by his overgrown power, combining against him - Cassander, Ptolemy, Lysimachus, the governor of Thrace, and Seleucus, who had fled before Antigonus from his satrapy of Babylonia.
Blocks of dressed stone overgrown by grass lie in regular formation; a series of parallel revetment walls on hills commanding passes exist, as do relics of ancient water-tanks.
Sultan Mahmud now devoted himself to breaking the overgrown power of the local governors, which had for many years practically annihilated that of the central authority.
Deep valleys winding through the barren foothills lead gradually up to the higher mountains, and as the track ascends the scenery and vegetation change their character; the trees which line the banks of the wadi are overgrown with creepers, and the running stream is dammed at frequent intervals, and led off in artificial channels to irrigate the fields on either side; the steeper parts of the road are paved with large stones, substantially built villages, with their masonry towers or da y s, crowning every height, replace the collection of *mud walls and brushwood huts of the low country; while tier above tier, terraced fields cover the hill slopes and attest the industry of the inhabitants and the fertility of their mountains.
The abuses and corruptions which had overgrown the practice of orthodox Islam had deeply impressed him, and he set to work to combat them, and to inculcate on all good Moslems a return to the pure simplicity of their original faith.
It was an octostyle, pseudo-dipteral temple of highly ornate Ionic order, built on older foundations by Hermogenes of Alabanda at the end of the 3rd century B.C. The platform has been greatly overgrown since the excavation, but many bases, capitals, and other architectural members are visible.
The southern part of the state includes the Everglades (qv.), a large area of low, flat, marshy land, overgrown with tall reedy grass, a veritable wilderness; thus giving Florida an unenvied first rank among the states in marsh area.
Its nest, which is a model of neatness and symmetry, it builds on trees and bushes, preferring such as are overgrown with moss and lichens.
As waterways all the rivers labour under the drawbacks of rapids, mud-banks at their mouths, banks overgrown with forest, sparse population, and currents liable to serious variations due to irregularity of supply from the mountains and sudden rainfalls.
Ali's authority in the great part of the peninsula subject to him now overshadowed that of the sultan; and Mahmud II., whose whole policy had been directed to destroying the overgrown power of the provincial pashas, began to seek a pretext for overthrowing the Lion of Iannina,whose all-devouring ambition seemed to threaten his own throne.
The park (Alameda de la Alhambra), which in spring is overgrown with wild-flowers and grass, was planted by the Moors with roses, oranges and myrtles; its most characteristic feature, however, is the dense wood of English elms brought hither in 1812 by the duke of Wellington.
In the same year a disputed succession at Gwalior, fomented by feminine intrigue, resulted in an outbreak of the overgrown army which the Sindhia family had been allowed to maintain.
Within the enclosure, which is entered by five monumental gates, are the remains of palaces and temples, overgrown by the forest.
The sultan's policy had been consistently directed to crushing the overgrown power of his vassals; in the spring of 1831 two rebellious pashas, Hussein of Bosnia and Mustafa of Scutari, had succumbed to his arms; and, since he was surrounded and counselled by the personal enemies of the pasha of Egypt, it was likely that, so soon as he should feel himself strong enough, he would deal in like manner with Mehemet Ali.
His quarrel with the Jesuits, and the recollection of some disputes with the pope he had had when king of Naples, turned him towards a general policy of restriction of the overgrown power of the church.
A small part of the northern Colombia, on the lower courses of the Atrato and Magdalena, extending across the country from the Eastern to the Western Cordilleras with a varying width of 100 to 150 m., not including the lower river basins which penetrate much farther inland, also consists of low, alluvial plains, partly covered with swamps and intricate watercourses, densely overgrown with vegetation, but in places admirably adapted to different kinds of tropical agriculture.
Joseph wished to restore peace and order among his subjects in the hope of ruling an independent nation, while Napoleon was determined to annex Spain to his own overgrown empire.
Like the history of the founder of the Achaemenian empire, that of Ardashir has from the beginning been overgrown with legends; like Cyrus he is the son of a shepherd, his future greatness is predicted by dreams and visions, and by the calculations of astronomers he becomes a servant at the court of King Artabanus and then flies to Persia and begins the rebellion; he fights with the great dragon, the enemy of god, &c. A Pahlavi text, which contains this legend, has been translated by Noldeke (Geschichte des Artachshir i Papakan, 1879).
The project is to rejuvenate an area once overgrown into an orchard increasing bio diversity and interest.
But in the midst of all the building work, one little Victorian boathouse survived, overgrown but untouched by all the surrounding changes.
I t was also reported that overgrown brambles and hedges were also a problem on the roadside.
He agreed and two weeks ago discovered the joys of speeding humps, raised slabs, potholes and overgrown bushes.