| 单词 | overgrown |
| 释义 | ˈoverˈgrown, ppl. a.
(stress varies)
[pa. pple. of overgrow v.]
1. Grown over (with vegetation, weeds, etc.). Also fig.
1634Rainbow Labour (1635) 40 To draine and scoure this fenny and viciously over-growne..ground. 1804–20W. Blake Jerusalem iv, in Compl. Writings (1972) 732 Of blood thro' all my nervous limbs; soon overgrown in roots I shall be closed from thy sight. 1907R. Brooke Let. Dec. in E. Marsh Rupert Brooke (1918) 26, I have already..got some faith in the real, sometimes overgrown, goodness of all men. 1938E. Ambler Cause for Alarm xvi. 273 There's an old disused road... It's overgrown by trees now. 1975A. Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek xii. 213 The forested cliffs..gave way to overgrown terraces.
2. That has grown too much; too big, abnormally large, of excessive size.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. iii. xix. (1495) 66 The vertu of smellynge is lette somtyme by stoppynge by ouergrowe flessh. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. i. iii. 22 Like an ore⁓growne Lyon in a Caue That goes not out to prey. 1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. x. 47 An ouer-growne Sea [is] when the surges and billowes goe highest. 1711Addison Spect. No. 65 ⁋4 He calls the Orange-Woman, who..is inclined to grow Fat, An Over-grown Jade. 1807Med. Jrnl. XVII. 193 Travelling from the one end to the other of this overgrown metropolis. 1888M. E. Braddon Fatal Three i. i, She is a great overgrown girl.
Hence † ˌoverˈgrownly adv., in an overgrown degree, excessively. Obs.
1668World's Mistake Cromwell in Select. fr. Harl. Misc. (1793) 395 Their king..overgrownly great and rich himself. |
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