overgrow

动词 v.
中文释义
发音 ō′vər-grō′

英文释义

动词 v.
  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
    — The utmost they aimed at doing was thoroughly to clear the old Church of all the corruptions and superstitions which had disfigured it in the course of ages, and which, like the flaunting ivy overgrowing some ancient building, not only concealed the Church's fair proportions, but shut out the light of heaven from its windows, and more or less dislocated its structure.

词形变化

overgrows present,singular,third-person overgrowing participle,present overgrew past overgrown participle,past

词源

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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