overgrowv.

Brit.

/ˌəʊvəˈɡrəʊ/, U.S.

/ˌoʊvərˈɡroʊ/

Inflections: Past tense overgrew; past participle overgrown;

Forms: see over- prefix and grow v.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, grow v.

Etymology: < over- prefix + grow v. Compare to grow over (see grow v.).

a. transitive. To grow over so as to cover; to overrun, overspread.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > extend [verb (transitive)] > extend over > extend over so as to cover

overgroweOE

wryc1275

overtakec1425

overreachc1440

overrun?1440

spread?1567

overcreep1640

cover1874

eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xlv. 337 Forðæm him wearð ierre se goda wyrhta forðæm he [sc. se fiicbeam] ofergreow ðæt land butan wæsðme.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 2190 (MED) Þis oritore is vgly, with erbez ouer-growen.

a1450 Partonope of Blois (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1912) 7288 (MED) Wyth here his vysage was ouer-grow.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Hosea ix. 6 The nettles shall ouergrowe their pleasaunt goodes.

1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 33 Hence leprosie the Cuckoes ouergrew.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Yorks. 228 He was..kept so long in Prison, Manicled by the wrests, till the Flesh had overgrown his Irons.

1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal v. 48 Scour the Medows, over-grown with Sedge.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Pruning The best time to prune Trees is in February..that so the Tree may easily overgrow the Knot.

1789 H. Brooke Earl Westmorland v. v. 167 Fair Albion, land of beauty! Owls build within thy lonely palaces, And weeds o'ergrow thy pavements!

1844 T. Hood Haunted House i, in Hood's Mag. Jan. 2 Vagrant plants of parasitic breed Had overgrown the Dial.

1855 C. Kingsley Theseus in Heroes i. 196 He found a great flat stone, all overgrown with ivy.

1916 Jrnl. Bacteriol. 1 323 Occasionally colonies fuse or overgrow each other and so reduce the count.

1963 G. Greene Sense of Reality 128 A hundred feet down among the red rocks lay a long structure glinting here and there among the bushes and moss which overgrew it.

b. intransitive. To be or become grown over. Also figurative. Now rare.

ΚΠ

a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. Bk. King Alexander 10147 Quhan breist and bak and browis all oure-growis.

1567 T. Palfreyman Baldwin's Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) vi. iii. f. 159 Except the sinfull harte of man & his fleshe, be often scoured with the whetstone of aduersitie, they will soone corrupte, and ouergrowe with the ruste of all filthynes and sinne.

a1643 J. Shute Judgem. & Mercy (1645) 102 The Field unplowed overgrowes with weeds.

1995 E. Osers tr. M. Holub Poems 198 When the circus leaves the trampled ground will once more overgrow with grass.

c. transitive. figurative. To overcome, overwhelm.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > encumber

accumberc1275

encumberc1386

accloy1422

overlay1441

cumber1493

poister1523

pester1533

overgrowa1550

clog1564

cloy1564

aggravate1573

trasha1616

hamper1775

mither1847

lumber1861

a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 57^v That wattery humours not over grow the blood.

1565 T. Stapleton Fortresse of Faith f. 84^v Heresy can not continew and owergrow the true church.

a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Captaine iii. iv, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Hh2/2 And all those griefes that thinke to over-grow me Shall be as I.

1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xxiii. 2) 178 Here Jacob forgat himself, when so overgrown with grief for his Joseph.

1701 C. Cibber Love makes Man i. 5 To Buy, and sell my stock to the best Advantage, and Cure my Cattle when they are over-grown with Labour.

1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner i. 5 Their imagination..is all overgrown by recollections that are a perpetual pasture to fear.

1891 A. Austin Narr. Poems 57 Alas! that death and time Should overgrow love's eulogies.

1958 Spectator 1 Aug. 166/1 The vital demarcation between intendant and administrator is overgrown by the cult of the amateur run riot.

1989 Time (Nexis) 10 July 58 In Africa the author found tribalism overgrowing hopes of progress.

2. intransitive. To grow too large or beyond the normal size; to grow too much or too luxuriantly; to increase unduly.The perfect tense is frequently formed with to be.

ΚΠ

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 46^v Onliche teþ a mong oþir bones while þe beest dureþ and þat is I-knowe in teeþ þat ouer groweþ [L. superexcrescentibus] & lenynge & bowinge a side..touchiþ aiþer oþir.

c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 1065 (MED) A plant, whils it is grene..A man may with his fyngirs ply it wher hym list..But let the plant stond, & ȝeris ovir grove, Men shall nat, with both his hondis..make it growe [perh. read bowe].

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxxviii. 129 Siluya had norisshed a herte [= hart] tyll that he was ouergrowen and grete.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxix The wedes if they ouer growe woll kyll the settes.

1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 326 She liueth long: but at the length hir beake ouergroweth, so as she cannot receiue meate, but onelie is faine to sucke in the bloud of it.

1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. 58 Before Atheisme quite ouergrowes.

1659 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 282 One..Kinaston, a merchant,..with a long beard and haire over~grown, was at the Miter-Inn; and faigning himself a Patriarch.

1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 100. ⁋3 Many others, who were overgrown in Wealth and Possessions.

1722 W. Hamilton Life of Sir William Wallace ii. i. 21 Into the Town liv'd a hudge English Fellow, All overgrow'n with Gutts of T—rd and Tallow.

1842 H. E. Manning Serm. viii. 108 To him the world is overgrown, and all its cares are swollen, to an unnatural greatness.

1892 W. Carleton City Festivals 103 Some who overgrew are here, Some whose growth developed queer.

1976 Daily Times (Lagos) 3 Nov. 16/4 Antibiotics..suppress bacteria, but molds and fungi go unchecked. They ‘overgrow’ and sometimes cause diseases.

1993 A. R. Ammons Garbage 16 The fat tree, unable to stop pouring it on, overfed and overgrew.

†3. transitive. To surpass, exceed (frequently in some quality). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)]

overstyeOE

overshinec1175

overgoc1225

passc1225

surmountc1369

forpassc1374

overmatcha1375

overpassa1382

to pass overa1393

overcomec1400

outpass?a1425

exceedc1425

precedec1425

superexcelc1429

transcendc1430

precel?a1439

outcut1447

overgrowc1475

to come over ——a1479

excel1493

overleapa1500

vanquish1533

outweigh1534

prevent1540

better1548

preferc1550

outgo1553

surpassa1555

exsuperate1559

cote1566

overtop1567

outrun1575

outstrip1579

outsail1580

overruna1586

pre-excel1587

outbid1589

outbrave1589

out-cote1589

top1590

outmatch1593

outvie1594

superate1595

surbravec1600

oversile1608

over-height1611

overstride1614

outdoa1616

outlustrea1616

outpeera1616

outstrikea1616

outrival1622

antecede1624

out-top1624

antecell1625

out-pitch1627

over-merit1629

outblazea1634

surmatch1636

overdoa1640

overact1643

outact1644

worst1646

overspana1657

outsoar1674

outdazzle1691

to cut down1713

ding1724

to cut out1738

cap1821

by-pass1848

overtower1850

pretergress1851

outray1876

outreach1879

cut1884

outperform1937

outrate1955

one-up1963

c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) iii. 344 (MED) This was a wondir world..Þat gromes ouere-grewe so many grette maistris.

1578 Bk. Christian Prayers in Private Prayers (1851) 465 So she may over~grow in reigning the reign of her father.

a1628 F. Greville Treat. Monarchy viii, in Remains (1670) 92 Can it strange or wonder be, Where Creatures their Creators overgrow, If Princes hold their Crowns by curtesie?

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 85 No wonder then, if easily they did over-grow others in wealth.

4. transitive. To grow more vigorously than. Also figurative. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)] > destroy the growth of plants, etc.

slayc1325

bruise?1523

overgrow?1523

nip1575

starve1578

depasturea1599

bedasha1616

victimize1849

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xlix [The garden] must be wedde, for els y^e wede woll ouer growe the herbes.

1535 King Henry VIII Let. 20 May in Hereford Munic. MSS (transcript) (O.E.D. Archive) I. 144 The Importunate begging of such sturdie and idle beggars To thenent order may be takyn in tyme that the wedes ov [er] growe not the corn.

1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 13 But the Britishe overgrewe the Latine.

1623 T. Scott High-waies of God 60 The tares ouergrow the wheat.

1896 F. B. Jevons Introd. Hist. Relig. viii. 89 It overgrows healthy social tendencies and kills them.

5. transitive. To grow beyond; to grow too big or tall for; to outgrow. Also figurative.Also reflexive: to grow beyond one's strength, proper size, etc. (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (transitive)] > increase beyond

overgrow1538

surcrease1603

outgrow1629

overtake1840

1538 Sir A. Windsor Let. c14–16 Sept. in Lisle Papers (P.R.O.: SP 3/8/78) f. 108 She hathe offere growne all that euer she hathe.

1591 A. Fraunce tr. Psalmes xxxviii, in Countesse of Pembrokes Emanuel sig. D4^v My syns now growne to a fullnes Ouergrow my head.

1712 J. Mortimer Art of Husbandry: Pt. II ii. 231 If the [hop] Binds be very strong, and much over-grow the Poles, some advise to strike off their Heads with a long Switch.

1833 H. Martineau Tale of Tyne iii. 63 I think government should, while giving privileges, take care that they do not overgrow just bounds.

1857 E. Rigby On Constit. Treatm. Female Dis. i. 3 This form of amenorrhœa is frequently seen in girls who have taken a rapid start in their growth at this time—who have, in fact, ‘overgrown themselves’.

1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words used in Lincolnshire 383 Poor thing ouergraw'd hersen, an' went off e' a decline, when she was e' her teens.

1923 Amer. Econ. Rev. 13 Suppl. 271 His ideas were rooted in his own subject but they overgrew these limits.

1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 29 Apr. c12/5 To keep pines from overgrowing their bounds, clip new shoots in half.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	overgrow
释义	overgrowv. Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈɡrəʊ/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈɡroʊ/ Inflections: Past tense overgrew; past participle overgrown; Forms: see over- prefix and grow v. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, grow v. Etymology: < over- prefix + grow v. Compare to grow over (see grow v.). 1. a. transitive. To grow over so as to cover; to overrun, overspread. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > extend [verb (transitive)] > extend over > extend over so as to cover overgroweOE wryc1275 overtakec1425 overreachc1440 overrun?1440 spread?1567 overcreep1640 cover1874 eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xlv. 337 Forðæm him wearð ierre se goda wyrhta forðæm he [sc. se fiicbeam] ofergreow ðæt land butan wæsðme. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 2190 (MED) Þis oritore is vgly, with erbez ouer-growen. a1450 Partonope of Blois (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1912) 7288 (MED) Wyth here his vysage was ouer-grow. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Hosea ix. 6 The nettles shall ouergrowe their pleasaunt goodes. 1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 33 Hence leprosie the Cuckoes ouergrew. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Yorks. 228 He was..kept so long in Prison, Manicled by the wrests, till the Flesh had overgrown his Irons. 1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal v. 48 Scour the Medows, over-grown with Sedge. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Pruning The best time to prune Trees is in February..that so the Tree may easily overgrow the Knot. 1789 H. Brooke Earl Westmorland v. v. 167 Fair Albion, land of beauty! Owls build within thy lonely palaces, And weeds o'ergrow thy pavements! 1844 T. Hood Haunted House i, in Hood's Mag. Jan. 2 Vagrant plants of parasitic breed Had overgrown the Dial. 1855 C. Kingsley Theseus in Heroes i. 196 He found a great flat stone, all overgrown with ivy. 1916 Jrnl. Bacteriol. 1 323 Occasionally colonies fuse or overgrow each other and so reduce the count. 1963 G. Greene Sense of Reality 128 A hundred feet down among the red rocks lay a long structure glinting here and there among the bushes and moss which overgrew it. b. intransitive. To be or become grown over. Also figurative. Now rare. ΚΠ a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. Bk. King Alexander 10147 Quhan breist and bak and browis all oure-growis. 1567 T. Palfreyman Baldwin's Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) vi. iii. f. 159 Except the sinfull harte of man & his fleshe, be often scoured with the whetstone of aduersitie, they will soone corrupte, and ouergrowe with the ruste of all filthynes and sinne. a1643 J. Shute Judgem. & Mercy (1645) 102 The Field unplowed overgrowes with weeds. 1995 E. Osers tr. M. Holub Poems 198 When the circus leaves the trampled ground will once more overgrow with grass. c. transitive. figurative. To overcome, overwhelm. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > encumber accumberc1275 encumberc1386 accloy1422 overlay1441 cumber1493 poister1523 pester1533 overgrowa1550 clog1564 cloy1564 aggravate1573 trasha1616 hamper1775 mither1847 lumber1861 a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 57^v That wattery humours not over grow the blood. 1565 T. Stapleton Fortresse of Faith f. 84^v Heresy can not continew and owergrow the true church. a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Captaine iii. iv, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Hh2/2 And all those griefes that thinke to over-grow me Shall be as I. 1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xxiii. 2) 178 Here Jacob forgat himself, when so overgrown with grief for his Joseph. 1701 C. Cibber Love makes Man i. 5 To Buy, and sell my stock to the best Advantage, and Cure my Cattle when they are over-grown with Labour. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner i. 5 Their imagination..is all overgrown by recollections that are a perpetual pasture to fear. 1891 A. Austin Narr. Poems 57 Alas! that death and time Should overgrow love's eulogies. 1958 Spectator 1 Aug. 166/1 The vital demarcation between intendant and administrator is overgrown by the cult of the amateur run riot. 1989 Time (Nexis) 10 July 58 In Africa the author found tribalism overgrowing hopes of progress. 2. intransitive. To grow too large or beyond the normal size; to grow too much or too luxuriantly; to increase unduly.The perfect tense is frequently formed with to be. ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 46^v Onliche teþ a mong oþir bones while þe beest dureþ and þat is I-knowe in teeþ þat ouer groweþ [L. superexcrescentibus] & lenynge & bowinge a side..touchiþ aiþer oþir. c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 1065 (MED) A plant, whils it is grene..A man may with his fyngirs ply it wher hym list..But let the plant stond, & ȝeris ovir grove, Men shall nat, with both his hondis..make it growe [perh. read bowe]. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxxviii. 129 Siluya had norisshed a herte [= hart] tyll that he was ouergrowen and grete. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxix The wedes if they ouer growe woll kyll the settes. 1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 326 She liueth long: but at the length hir beake ouergroweth, so as she cannot receiue meate, but onelie is faine to sucke in the bloud of it. 1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. 58 Before Atheisme quite ouergrowes. 1659 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 282 One..Kinaston, a merchant,..with a long beard and haire over~grown, was at the Miter-Inn; and faigning himself a Patriarch. 1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 100. ⁋3 Many others, who were overgrown in Wealth and Possessions. 1722 W. Hamilton Life of Sir William Wallace ii. i. 21 Into the Town liv'd a hudge English Fellow, All overgrow'n with Gutts of T—rd and Tallow. 1842 H. E. Manning Serm. viii. 108 To him the world is overgrown, and all its cares are swollen, to an unnatural greatness. 1892 W. Carleton City Festivals 103 Some who overgrew are here, Some whose growth developed queer. 1976 Daily Times (Lagos) 3 Nov. 16/4 Antibiotics..suppress bacteria, but molds and fungi go unchecked. They ‘overgrow’ and sometimes cause diseases. 1993 A. R. Ammons Garbage 16 The fat tree, unable to stop pouring it on, overfed and overgrew. †3. transitive. To surpass, exceed (frequently in some quality). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)] overstyeOE overshinec1175 overgoc1225 passc1225 surmountc1369 forpassc1374 overmatcha1375 overpassa1382 to pass overa1393 overcomec1400 outpass?a1425 exceedc1425 precedec1425 superexcelc1429 transcendc1430 precel?a1439 outcut1447 overgrowc1475 to come over ——a1479 excel1493 overleapa1500 vanquish1533 outweigh1534 prevent1540 better1548 preferc1550 outgo1553 surpassa1555 exsuperate1559 cote1566 overtop1567 outrun1575 outstrip1579 outsail1580 overruna1586 pre-excel1587 outbid1589 outbrave1589 out-cote1589 top1590 outmatch1593 outvie1594 superate1595 surbravec1600 oversile1608 over-height1611 overstride1614 outdoa1616 outlustrea1616 outpeera1616 outstrikea1616 outrival1622 antecede1624 out-top1624 antecell1625 out-pitch1627 over-merit1629 outblazea1634 surmatch1636 overdoa1640 overact1643 outact1644 worst1646 overspana1657 outsoar1674 outdazzle1691 to cut down1713 ding1724 to cut out1738 cap1821 by-pass1848 overtower1850 pretergress1851 outray1876 outreach1879 cut1884 outperform1937 outrate1955 one-up1963 c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) iii. 344 (MED) This was a wondir world..Þat gromes ouere-grewe so many grette maistris. 1578 Bk. Christian Prayers in Private Prayers (1851) 465 So she may over~grow in reigning the reign of her father. a1628 F. Greville Treat. Monarchy viii, in Remains (1670) 92 Can it strange or wonder be, Where Creatures their Creators overgrow, If Princes hold their Crowns by curtesie? 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 85 No wonder then, if easily they did over-grow others in wealth. 4. transitive. To grow more vigorously than. Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)] > destroy the growth of plants, etc. slayc1325 bruise?1523 overgrow?1523 nip1575 starve1578 depasturea1599 bedasha1616 victimize1849 ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xlix [The garden] must be wedde, for els y^e wede woll ouer growe the herbes. 1535 King Henry VIII Let. 20 May in Hereford Munic. MSS (transcript) (O.E.D. Archive) I. 144 The Importunate begging of such sturdie and idle beggars To thenent order may be takyn in tyme that the wedes ov [er] growe not the corn. 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 13 But the Britishe overgrewe the Latine. 1623 T. Scott High-waies of God 60 The tares ouergrow the wheat. 1896 F. B. Jevons Introd. Hist. Relig. viii. 89 It overgrows healthy social tendencies and kills them. 5. transitive. To grow beyond; to grow too big or tall for; to outgrow. Also figurative.Also reflexive: to grow beyond one's strength, proper size, etc. (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (transitive)] > increase beyond overgrow1538 surcrease1603 outgrow1629 overtake1840 1538 Sir A. Windsor Let. c14–16 Sept. in Lisle Papers (P.R.O.: SP 3/8/78) f. 108 She hathe offere growne all that euer she hathe. 1591 A. Fraunce tr. Psalmes xxxviii, in Countesse of Pembrokes Emanuel sig. D4^v My syns now growne to a fullnes Ouergrow my head. 1712 J. Mortimer Art of Husbandry: Pt. II ii. 231 If the [hop] Binds be very strong, and much over-grow the Poles, some advise to strike off their Heads with a long Switch. 1833 H. Martineau Tale of Tyne iii. 63 I think government should, while giving privileges, take care that they do not overgrow just bounds. 1857 E. Rigby On Constit. Treatm. Female Dis. i. 3 This form of amenorrhœa is frequently seen in girls who have taken a rapid start in their growth at this time—who have, in fact, ‘overgrown themselves’. 1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words used in Lincolnshire 383 Poor thing ouergraw'd hersen, an' went off e' a decline, when she was e' her teens. 1923 Amer. Econ. Rev. 13 Suppl. 271 His ideas were rooted in his own subject but they overgrew these limits. 1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 29 Apr. c12/5 To keep pines from overgrowing their bounds, clip new shoots in half. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < v.eOE
随便看	tension-fuse tension-member tension-pulley tension-rail tension-relieving tension-rod tension-roller tension-spicule tensional tensionally tensionbridge tensiondevice tensioned tensioner tensioners tensionfuse tensioning tensionless tensionmember tensionpulley tensionrail tensionrelieving tensionrod tensionroller tensions