Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: overgrown
IPA transcription: [,oʊvɚɡɹ'oʊn]
Pronunciations of overgrown
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: overgrown
    Meaning: covered with growing plants
Usage examples
  • OVERGROWN MUGWORT
  • And searching among their roots he found a great flat stone, all overgrown with ivy, and acanthus, and moss.
  • There was no one in the store to answer the question but an overgrown boy who had stopped to get his father's weekly paper.
  • Large blocks of stone lay there, overgrown with moss of every color; the fresh spring bubbled forth, and made a strange gurgling sound.
  • It is now overgrown with sour orange and calabash trees, the latter bearing large fruit shells so useful to the Indians in making pilches or cups.
  • At last they came in sight of a tumbled-down cottage on the edge of what had once been a clearing, but which was now overgrown with weeds and brushwood.
  • The wall in which it had been the opening had crumbled away, but the great gate still towered above the brambles and weeds which had overgrown its base.
  • "In this place, also," says De Leon, "there are stones so large and so overgrown that our wonder is excited, it being incomprehensible how the power of man could have placed them where we see them.
  • They walked on across the fields and down the shady lanes, sometimes getting over a fragment of a fence so rotten that it dropped at a touch of the foot, sometimes passing near a wreck of bricks and beams overgrown with grass, marking the site of deserted works.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Archimedes, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, License CC BY-SA 4.0