overgrow

Other forms of overgrow

past tense or participle

overgrew

past tense or participle

overgrown

present participle

overgrowing·

third person

overgrows·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about overgrow

What does overgrow mean?

overgrow means "grow too large". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in overgrow?

overgrow has 3 syllables: o-ver-grow. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for overgrow?

Close synonyms include grow over. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is overgrow a common word?

overgrow is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.