adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
overgrown (= covered with plants that have grown in an uncontrolled way )
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The garden is getting rather overgrown.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
garden
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After viewing the outside and the wild, overgrown garden , they decided to explore the crumbling interior.
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It backed on to a big grey building like an overgrown garden shed, with no windows.
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He carried the dead toad into the overgrown garden .
schoolboy
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Eddie is an overgrown schoolboy with a penchant for pulling fleshy faces.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an overgrown field
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An overgrown hedge divided the two properties.
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But if she had to liken him to anything it would be an overgrown teddy bear in determined pursuit of his honey.
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He threw everything out, clothes, shoes, old wellingtons, burrowing underneath all the mess like an overgrown mole.
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He wasn't a man, only a big, overgrown boy, and he looked quite crazy and terrifying.
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Inside the grounds the path continued, curving up between the overgrown rhododendrons in the direction of the house.
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It backed on to a big grey building like an overgrown garden shed, with no windows.
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It was utterly quiet, save for vague rustlings in the overgrown grasses.
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The stone walls, what remained of them, were weather-beaten but untouched by overgrown weeds.