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Definition of weedgrown in English: weedgrownadjectiveˈwiːdɡrəʊn Overgrown with weeds. outside in the weedgrown streets all was silence Example sentencesExamples - In the harsh economic climate of those days nothing further could be done with the site, so it became a weedgrown, rubbish strewn eyesore for the next 40 years.
- An acquaintance of his asked for permission to cut the rather weedgrown grass off it for hay.
- You see, in the first act, the set was a dilapidated house with a weedgrown yard and shabby fence.
- Railway sidings have all but disappeared and the few that remain are rusted, weedgrown and disused.
- Creative ingenuity gone, the arts and industries would decay, sky-scrapers would crumble, plantations would be weedgrown, as they are in Haiti.
- The book ends with Tomlinson and Maynard revisiting the weedgrown battlefields of France, trying to avoid souvenir-collecting tourists, trying to see some hope for the future.
Synonyms run down, derelict, dilapidated, tumbledown, ramshackle, untended, unmaintained |