Crossword-Solution: OVERGROW
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Overgrow | v. t. | To grow over; to cover with growth or herbage, esp. that which is rank. |
| Overgrow | v. t. | To grow beyond; to rise above; hence, to overcome; to oppress. |
| Overgrow | v. i. | To grow beyond the fit or natural size; as, a huge, overgrown ox. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “OVERGROW”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Choke with vegetation | 1 answer |
| grow too large | 1 answer |
| grow over or across (an area, path, lawn, etc) | 1 answer |
| grow beyond or across | 1 answer |
| Get too big. | 1 answer |
| Get inundated with flowers? | 1 answer |
| Exceed the bounds of | 1 answer |
| Crowd with foliage | 1 answer |
| Choke, as with weeds | 1 answer |
| Choke with abundance | 1 answer |
| Become weedy | 1 answer |
| Become choked with weeds | 1 answer |
| CHOKE BACK | 10 answers |
| CAUSE TO RETCH OR CHOKE | 10 answers |
| A DENSE CLUSTER OF FLOWERS OR FOLIAGE | 10 answers |
| BEARING FOLIAGE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR | 11 answers |
| Choke | 56 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with OVERGROW (5)
XVI “Go then, my strength, my hope, my Spirits go, These western rebels with your power withstand, Pluck up these weeds, before they overgrow The gentle garden of the Hebrews’ land, Quench out this spark, before it kindles so That Asia burn, consumed with the brand.
The flowers of rhetoric and poetry have lost their freshness and charm; and a technical language has begun to supersede and overgrow them.
The time seemed near when the sea-weed should overgrow her silent Rialto, and the fisherman wash his nets in her deserted arsenal.
And here is a being who certainly has more than talent, at once poet and artist in tendency, if not yet fairly developed,--a woman, too;--and genius grafted on womanhood is like to overgrow it and break its stem, as you may see a grafted fruit-tree spreading over the stock which cannot keep pace with its evolution.
And time that weareth most things, and the years that overgrow The tale of the fools triumphant, yet clearer and clearer shall show The deeds of the helpers of menfolk to every age and clime, The deeds of the cursed and the conquered that were wise before their time.
Quotes with OVERGROW (3)
Here. Here I am. You've taken everything from us, but not who we are! We still exist! One day grass will grow here and overgrow the ruins. Or day this will be forgotten. But you... No one will ever forget you! The shame of humanity.
The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.
You are quite right, I changed my mind and do no longer speak of “radical evil.” … It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like a fungus on the surface. It is “thought-defying,” as I said, because thought tries to reach some depth, to go to the roots, and the moment it concerns itself with evil, it…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1956–2020).