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synonyms for overgrows

  • 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 overgrows

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

It do make a young feller weak-like when he overgrows his strength.
HUMPHREY BOLDHERBERT STRANG
It was just a weed that had overgrown his talk as that pestilent clinging convolvulus overgrows my garden.
WINDFALLS(AKA ALPHA OF THE PLOUGH) ALFRED GEORGE GARDINER
One of its wings grows more swiftly than the other, overgrows it, and thus turns around the transverse axis.
REPORT ON THE RADIOLARIA COLLECTED BY H.M.S. CHALLENGER DURING THE YEARS 1873-1876, FIRST PART: PORULOSA (SPUMELLARIA AND ACANTHARIA)ERNST HAECKEL
The peach cion rapidly overgrows the stock and the tree can hardly be expected to be long lived.
DWARF FRUIT TREESF. A. WAUGH
Who made you knight, that you let such a lad match you, as the weed overgrows the corn?
HISTORIC TALES, VOL. XIII (OF 15)CHARLES MORRIS
Dress overgrows and smothers every other feeling in a woman's heart.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 18, NO. 108, OCTOBER, 1866VARIOUS
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