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synonyms for overgrowing

  • beset
  • choke
  • deluge
  • inundate
  • invade
  • overflow
  • overwhelm
  • ravage
  • overgrow
  • overshoot
  • overspread
  • overstep
  • permeate
  • spill
  • surge
  • surpass
  • swarm
  • go beyond
  • run on
  • run over
  • spread like wildfire
  • well over

antonyms for overgrowing

MOST RELEVANT
  • underwhelm
  • evacuate
  • lose
  • retreat
  • surrender
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How to use overgrowing in a sentence

Some of the castles are in ruins and are almost hidden by the overgrowing ivy.
STORIES OF GREAT MUSICIANSKATHRINE LOIS SCOBEY
At that time the relatives go to the To-hp-ki and cut from around it the overgrowing grass.
THE SEMINOLE INDIANS OF FLORIDACLAY MACCAULEY
Also it brushed a clump of ivy overgrowing the lintel, and shook down about half an ounce of powdery dust into my hair and eyes.
POISON ISLANDARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH (Q)
Still this dwarfing effect is always well marked, this result being shown by the overgrowing of the cion.
DWARF FRUIT TREESF. A. WAUGH
This whole countryside is a ruined waste—villages destroyed, weeds overgrowing everything; and no inhabitants except troops.
WAR LETTERS OF A PUBLIC-SCHOOL BOYPAUL JONES.
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