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overgrown

adjective as in grown to an unnatural size

adjective as in grown without being tended

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adjective as in wild

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“You took out the entire horde, and I could barely handle one overgrown furball.”

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The roof leaked, the carriage horses’ ribs showed, and the flower gardens were overgrown with weeds.

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The front wall of the building was completely overgrown with vines.

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To Penelope it looked like a sort of overgrown mountain squirrel.

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The Radical Road itself has become overgrown without usage for years but HES says the wider path network is now "highly degraded" from the pressure of user numbers outweighing the capacity of the paths.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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