Overgrow vs Overgrown - What's the difference?
overgrow | overgrown |
To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment.
To grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing).
* 1886 , Edward Meyrick Goulburn, Meditations upon the liturgical gospels for the minor festivals , page 28:
* 2002 , James Morrison, Broken Fever: Reflections of Gay Boyhood , page 196:
* 2008 , J. R. Ward, Lover Enshrined :
Having large numbers of plants which have become too big, and are hence spoiling the picturesqueness of a garden.
(In the form "An overgrown X") Something which has grown bigger but has not changed its character.
As verbs the difference between overgrow and overgrown
is that overgrow is to grow beyond one's boundaries or containment while overgrown is .As an adjective overgrown is
having large numbers of plants which have become too big, and are hence spoiling the picturesqueness of a garden.overgrow
English
Verb
- The utmost they aimed at doing was thoroughly to clear the old Church of all the corruptions and superstitions which had disfigured it in the course of ages, and which, like the flaunting ivy overgrowing some ancient building [...]
- One wall advertised a dense muddle of ivy overgrowing its prefab brick, while a miniature moat with a jerry-built bridge arcing over it snaked around one of the "halls" (as real universities dub their constituent structures).
- "If there is ivy overgrowing things, then we shall clean it up."
overgrown
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He spends so much money on new technology, he's like an overgrown schoolboy buying toys.