overgrow meaning in English
vt.
(-grew; -grown )
1.〔主用被动语态〕(杂草等)在…上蔓生，丛生，长满。
2.〔overgrow oneself〕长得过度[过大、过高]。
vi.
蔓延过度；长得过大[过快]。 an overgrowing city 正在急速发展中的城市。
Examples
- This bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard .
那蔓草丛生的凄凉地方是教堂公墓。 - Now and then he picked raspberries in the overgrown garden .
有时，他会跑到杂草丛生的花园里去采摘蔗莓。 - He skipped briskly over the fence, and made for an overgrown ditch and bank .
他轻巧地跳过篱笆，走向一个长满荒草的沟。 - A highly localized, specialized piece of substrate is densely overgrown .
菌体稠密地长满了一小块高度局限的特化的基质上。 - The old lane that used to connect elm street to riverbanks was overgrown .
从前连接榆树街和河岸的那条小道已经长满了草木。