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Meanings of
overgrow
in English
Portuguese
crescer até cobrir
Catalan
sobrecréixer
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Grow beyond or across.
grow over
Portuguese
crescer até cobrir
Usage of
overgrow
in English
1
In some cases, the stromal cells become large mass lesions that
overgrow
the prostate.
2
It spreads out, flowing under pressure, over the neighboring organisms, but doesn't
overgrow
itself.
3
And the yellow roses from out back, the ones she'd let
overgrow
with vines.
4
In cirrhotic tissue enlarged portal veins appeared to
overgrow
FVIII producing sinusoidal endothelial cells.
5
The nettles that methodically
overgrow
the abandoned homesteads of exiles.
6
How beautifully these trees
overgrow
the old tower!
7
To
overgrow
with poisoned bloom my life.
8
It would have been easy for Goethe, with the gift of a sensuous nature, to let it
overgrow
him.
9
However, when your immune system is weakened, the fungus can
overgrow
,
leading to lesions in your mouth and tongue.
10
I cut back the brush that had begun to
overgrow
the fence at the north end of the African enclosure.
11
The time seemed near when the sea-weed should
overgrow
her silent Rialto, and the fisherman wash his nets in her deserted arsenal.
12
The flowers of rhetoric and poetry have lost their freshness and charm; and a technical language has begun to supersede and
overgrow
them.
13
The causes of a yeast infection varies -candida can
overgrow
as a result of stress, pregnancy and illnesses that affect the immune system.
14
Plum pocket causes the fruit to
overgrow
and destroys the pit, and big bladder or sack-like fruits are produced instead of the normal fruit.
15
Classic architecture is nothing but an outline, and affords no little points, no interstices where human feelings may cling and
overgrow
it like ivy.
16
It is an overcast and sultry summer day, and the air smells of citrus trees, magnolia trees and thick jasmine vines that
overgrow
the timbers.
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overgrow
Verb
Indicative · Present
Frequent collocations
overgrow as
overgrow the fence
Translations for
overgrow
Portuguese
crescer até cobrir
crescer exageradamente
Catalan
sobrecréixer
Overgrow
through the time