English
Etymology
From over- + grown.
Pronunciation
Adjective
overgrown (comparative more overgrown, superlative most overgrown)
- Having large numbers of plants which have become too big, and are hence spoiling the picturesqueness of a garden.
- (attributive, mildly derogatory) Having grown bigger without developing maturity or changing character.
He spends so much money on new technology: he's like an overgrown schoolboy buying toys.
Translations
having large numbers of plants which have become too big
- Bulgarian: обрасъл (bg) (obrasǎl)
- Cebuano: malibon
- Finnish: umpeenkasvanut
- German: überwachsen (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: δασύς (dasús)
- Latin: obsitus
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: waipapa, ururua, heuheu, tūhea, maheu (of a garden with weeds), kōwaowao
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: begrodd
- Spanish: demasiado crecido, demasiadamente crecido, zarrapastroso (es), zarapastroso (Latin America), zalapastroso (Dominican Republic)
- Swedish: igengrodd, övervuxen, bevuxen (sv)
- Thai: รกชัฏ (th) (rók-chát)
- Ukrainian: зарослий (zaroslyj), порослий (poroslyj), заріс (zaris), без догляду (bez dohljadu), запущений (uk) (zapuščenyj)
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having grown bigger without changing character
- Spanish: grandulón (es), grandullón (es), tarajalludo
- Ukrainian: надмірно вирослий (nadmirno vyroslyj), перерослий (pereroslyj), перерісший (pererisšyj)
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Verb
overgrown
- past participle of overgrow