"overgrow" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: overgrows [present, singular, third-person], overgrowing [participle, present], overgrew [past], overgrown [participle, past]
Etymology: over- + grow Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|over|grow}} over- + grow Head templates: {{en-verb|overgrows|overgrowing|overgrew|overgrown}} overgrow (third-person singular simple present overgrows, present participle overgrowing, simple past overgrew, past participle overgrown)
  1. (intransitive) To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment, or beyond the proper size. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-overgrow-en-verb-YychKceh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 84 16 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 81 19
  2. (transitive) To grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing). Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-overgrow-en-verb-V0Knwr1l Categories (other): English terms prefixed with over- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with over-: 30 70
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (to grow or spread over something so as to stifle it): обраствам (obrastvam) (Bulgarian), overgroeien (Dutch), benő (Hungarian), túlburjánzik (Hungarian), kōwaowao (Maori), آزمق (azmak) (Ottoman Turkish)
Disambiguation of 'to grow or spread over something so as to stifle it': 48 52

Inflected forms

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