¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overgrew
1. overgrow [v] - See also: overgrow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overgrew
Literary usage of Overgrew
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1834)
"Next, I think, as to the Curragh jockeys, came Cleary, already mentioned, and
inferior to none, but that he overgrew himself, and was from the start too ..."
2. A new dictionary of the Italian and English languages, based upon that of by John Davenport, Giuseppe Marc' Antonio Baretti, Guglielmo Comelati (1854)
"overgrew, pass, del verbo to overgrow. ... va (pass, overgrew, part, overgrown,) 1.
coprir d'erba, di piante, ..."
3. Our Animal Friends: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1893)
"Goat-like, he scrambled up to the top of the rock, through the wild roses that
overgrew its base, and nibbled at the inviting paper. ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"Normal cells present in the same fields produced colonies which overgrew the
involution forms. Azotobacter and Plant Growth.—It was decided to test the ..."
Other Resources:
