"overgrow" meaning in English

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        "To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment, or beyond the proper size."
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        "(intransitive) To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment, or beyond the proper size."
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          "ref": "2002, James Morrison, Broken Fever: Reflections of Gay Boyhood, page 196",
          "text": "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).",
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        "(transitive) To grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing)."
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      "roman": "obrastvam",
      "sense": "to grow or spread over something so as to stifle it",
      "word": "обраствам"
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      "sense": "to grow or spread over something so as to stifle it",
      "word": "overgroeien"
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      "sense": "to grow or spread over something so as to stifle it",
      "word": "benő"
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      "sense": "to grow or spread over something so as to stifle it",
      "word": "túlburjánzik"
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      "sense": "to grow or spread over something so as to stifle it",
      "word": "kōwaowao"
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      "roman": "azmak",
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        "(transitive) To grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing)."
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      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "obrastvam",
      "sense": "to grow or spread over something so as to stifle it",
      "word": "обраствам"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to grow or spread over something so as to stifle it",
      "word": "overgroeien"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to grow or spread over something so as to stifle it",
      "word": "benő"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to grow or spread over something so as to stifle it",
      "word": "túlburjánzik"
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      "sense": "to grow or spread over something so as to stifle it",
      "word": "kōwaowao"
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      "roman": "azmak",
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