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Overgrown

To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment, or beyond the proper size.

📖 Definitions of "Overgrown"

verb
  1. 1

    To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment, or beyond the proper size.

  2. 2

    To grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing).

adjective
  1. 1

    Having large numbers of plants which have become too big, and are hence spoiling the picturesqueness of a garden.

  2. 2

    Having grown bigger without developing maturity or changing character.

    "He spends so much money on new technology: he's like an overgrown schoolboy buying toys."

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