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How to pronounce overgrow in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms grow over
Type of grow
Type Words
Type of change state, turn
Type Words
Type of exceed, surpass, transcend

Examples of overgrow

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The corals could then overgrow the hills, forming the present cays and reefs.
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The corals could then overgrow the hills, to form the present cays and reefs.
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Relentless harvesting of grazing fishes releases algae and seaweeds that overgrow corals.
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These colonies can quickly overgrow most surfaces and other organisms.
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The nutrients feed algae that overgrow, and use up oxygen in the water at the bottom of the Gulf.
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When plants overgrow containers or to change the scene, transplant them into your gar-den and start over.
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Sunny areas become shady, shrubs overgrow windows, perennials get tired and replacements or additions become necessary.
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It has a strong potential to overgrow natural biotopes, and represents a major risk for sublittoral ecosystems.
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These corals chemically sense that the inferior competitor is nearby, selectively grow toward that species and overgrow it.
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More examples
  • Grow too large
  • Become overgrown; "The patio overgrew with ivy"
  • (overgrown) covered with growing plants
  • (overgrown) abounding in usually unwanted vegetation
  • Heaven's Stairway was an Eastern Canadian cannabis seedbank, supplying around 300 different cannabis strains. ...
  • To grow beyond one's boundaries or containments; To grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing)
  • (overgrown) Having large numbers of plants which have become too big, and are hence spoiling the picturesqueness of a garden; Something which has grown bigger but has not changed its character