- 1(of gardens, etc.) covered with plants that have been allowed to grow wild and have not been controlled an overgrown path overgrown with something The garden's completely overgrown with weeds.
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- 2(often disapproving) that has grown too large an overgrown village They act like a pair of overgrown children (= they are adults but they behave like children).
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