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🌱 To plant too much 🌾 To add more seeds
to oversow

to oversow

7.9
To put too many seeds close together so the plants crowd each other
  • verb
  • /ˌoʊvərˈsoʊ/
translation icon : sembrar en exceso
  • If you oversow the garden bed, the plants will compete for sunlight and nutrients.

Examples

  • He accidentally oversowed the lawn, resulting in patchy and crowded grass growth.

  • Farmers are careful not to oversow their fields to avoid poor crop yields.

  • You shouldn't oversow the garden this spring.

  • He oversowed the field last year.

  • If you oversow the garden bed, the plants will compete for sunlight and nutrients.

  • Farmers are careful not to oversow their fields to avoid poor crop yields.

  • He accidentally oversowed the lawn, resulting in patchy and crowded grass growth.

Synonyms

to overplant
vsto oversow
1 6.8

Putting too many plants in a space so it becomes crowded

is to place seeds so densely that plants become overcrowded

How Dense

to oversow
7.9
to overseed
1 4.9
to sow
45 1.8
scatter
8 4.0

Surface Forms

oversow infinitive
oversowing present participle
oversows third person singular
oversowed past
oversown past participle

Morphology

oversow = sow (transparent) = over + sow

The word 'oversow' is transparently derived from 'sow' with the prefix 'over-', indicating an excessive action.

Etymology

Oversow comes from the parts over- meaning 'too much' and sow meaning 'to plant seed'. So, like overeat meaning 'eat too much', oversow means to plant seeds too thickly so the plants crowd each other.