Overgrow

Synonyms for "overgrow" (92 found)

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manner of

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related to

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Translations

9 translations across 6 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • обраствам verb (to grow or spread over something so as to stifle it)

Czech

3 entries
  • přerůst verb (to grow or spread over something so as to stifle it)
  • zarůst verb (to grow or spread over something so as to stifle it)
  • zarůstat verb (to grow or spread over something so as to stifle it)

Dutch

1 entries
  • overgroeien verb (to grow or spread over something so as to stifle it)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • benő verb (to grow or spread over something so as to stifle it)
  • túlburjánzik verb (to grow or spread over something so as to stifle it)

Māori

1 entries
  • kōwaowao verb (to grow or spread over something so as to stifle it)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries
  • آزمق verb (to grow or spread over something so as to stifle it)

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

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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, not only concealed the Church's fair proportions, but shut out the light of heaven from its windows, and more or less dislocated its structure.

Source: wiktionary

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).

Source: wiktionary

If there is ivy overgrowing things, then we shall clean it up.

Source: wiktionary

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