get overgrown
Frequency: 6.89.3 per million words
Similar to 'become overgrown', more common in informal speech.
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Examples (10)
- If you don't weed the garden, it will soon get overgrown.
- The old path has got overgrown with brambles over the years.
- My backyard is starting to get overgrown since I've been away.
- It's amazing how quickly a vacant lot can get overgrown.
- We need to clear this area before it gets too overgrown to manage.
- The cemetery had gotten quite overgrown by the time we visited.
- Don't let the hedges get overgrown or they'll be hard to trim.
- The abandoned house's driveway is getting overgrown with weeds.
- The park shouldn't be allowed to get overgrown like this.
- After the heavy rains, the riverbank got overgrown very quickly.