to overgrow

Examples

• All

• The cattail in the PPR is an invasive species that can completely overgrow wetlands.

  Academic text (2011)

• In areas where there are few herbivores, seaweeds overgrow corals, slowing their growth or even smothering them.

  Academic text (1998)

• The coral can later overgrow the area of dead skeletons.

  Academic text (2008)

• And because of this, it starts to overgrow and of course cause trouble to our digestive tract.

  Dr. Josh Axe

• However, the fungus itself will survive and overgrow, which can lead, of course, to persistent infection.

  Academic text (2004)

• Across the river, in the new part of Blaszka, you could see the ruins of the mill and the woods overgrowing abandoned houses.

  Fiction book (1999)

• The coral protects the crab from predators, and the crab eats seaweeds that would otherwise overgrow the coral.

  Academic text (1998)

• Now kudzu is considered a noxious weed in certain states, having overgrown many a roadside landscape.

  Academic text (1996)

• She shook her head, poked her way through thicker brush that had overgrown the hidden trail.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The garden became a jungle as the weeds began to overgrow everything in sight.

Synonyms

G

to grow over

vsto overgrow

4 3.5

To spread over something and cover it, as moss or vines do

describes excessive plant expansion that covers or overwhelms objects

O

to overspread

vsto overgrow

1 7.1

Move across a surface and cover it, like mist or color

is limited to plants expanding too much and covering objects rather than any spreading

Antonyms

P

to prune

6 3.4

Cut branches and stems from a plant to help it grow and keep its shape

How Overgrown

to smother

20 4.2

to overrun

38 4.8

to overgrow

2 4.4

to cover

∞ 1.0

to spread

664 1.6

to grow

∞ 1.0

to sprout

68 2.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology