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Overgrown
To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment, or beyond the proper size.
📖 Definitions of "Overgrown"
verb
- 1
To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment, or beyond the proper size.
- 2
To grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing).
adjective
- 1
Having large numbers of plants which have become too big, and are hence spoiling the picturesqueness of a garden.
- 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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