forgrowen

Middle English

Verb

forgrowen

  1. to overgrow
    • c. 1470, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Floure and the Leafe, lines 43-46,[1]
      And at the last a path of litle breade
      I found, that greatly had not used be,
      For it forgrowen was with grasse and weede
      That well unneth a wight might it se.
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