overgrown
Example Sentences
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A market dip is a prime opportunity to shave back overgrown allocations at a lower tax cost.
From Barron's
Traipsing down the Hollywood Farmers Market with giant heads of lettuce and overgrown bouquets feels not only like release, but also resistance and resilience.
From Los Angeles Times
A young boy wearing short pants and a baseball cap stands in overgrown grass looking at the empty frame from which—amazingly—a blurred figure is descending.
The schools, clinics, the manicured golf course — onetime amenities from an industry awash in petrodollars — gone or overgrown with weeds.
From Los Angeles Times
"The land has become overgrown in places and would benefit from grazing and general land management to restore it to its full potential and productivity," the listing adds.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
