Usually means: Expanded beyond original boundaries, excessively.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word overgrew:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. overgrew: Merriam-Webster
  2. overgrew: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overgrew: Collins English Dictionary
  4. overgrew: Vocabulary.com
  5. overgrew: Wordnik
  6. overgrew: Wiktionary
  7. Overgrew, overgrew: Dictionary.com
  8. Overgrew: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Overgrew: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. overgrew: FreeDictionary.org
  11. overgrew: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overgrew: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overgrew: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (overgrow)

verb:  (intransitive) To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment, or beyond the proper size.
verb:  (transitive) To grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing).
▸ Also see overgrow


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