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overgrow.

To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment, or beyond the proper size.

8 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb
  1. To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment, or beyond the proper size.

    intransitive
  2. To grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing).

    transitive
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English grow English overgrow From over- + grow.

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