Thesaurus / overgrown
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Then we are again overgrown boys, beings of inferior race and incapable of being civilized.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMANThere were great overgrown shrubs on either side of the gate just outside the factory grounds.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUSBut Brindle tarried behind and foraged for her supper by nibbling the grass from the overgrown dooryard.
DOROTHY AT SKYRIEEVELYN RAYMONDHere a fence ran close to the road and the corners were overgrown with weeds and brush, making a safe hiding place.
THE COURIER OF THE OZARKSBYRON A. DUNNThe procession, preceded by Bob on his feathered steed, passed through a chasm overgrown with brambles.
HONEY-BEEANATOLE FRANCEA cowardly, overgrown boy, terrified at to-morrow's punishment for the prank he has played!
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMANOnce there had been a path to the road, but this was now overgrown, and the doorsteps had rotted away.
THE IDYL OF TWIN FIRESWALTER PRICHARD EATONThe kingly power among the Jews was checked and hedged by other powers, so that an overgrown tyranny was difficult and unusual.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IIJOHN LORDHe was like a granite rock, which the sweet grass has overgrown, and from whose crevices peep lovely wild flowers.
REMINISCENCES OF CHARLES BRADLAUGHGEORGE W. FOOTEM. Courrire speaks of him very happily as "an overgrown child who seems to be lost in a wholly unfamiliar world."
MY RELIGIONLEO TOLSTOYWORDS RELATED TO OVERGROWN
- ailing
- beat-up
- bedraggled
- crummy
- decaying
- decrepit
- dingy
- dog-eared
- down-at-the-heel
- drooping
- droopy
- faded
- flagging
- frowzy
- gone to seed
- grubby
- in a bad way
- mangy
- messy
- neglected
- old
- overgrown
- poor
- poorly
- ragged
- ratty
- sagging
- scruffy
- shabby
- sickly
- sleazy
- slovenly
- squalid
- tacky
- tattered
- threadbare
- tired
- torn
- unkempt
- untidy
- unwell
- used-up
- wilted
- wilting
- worn
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