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overgrow

[ˌəuvə'grəu] брит. / амер.

гл.; прош. вр. overgrew, прич. прош. вр. overgrown

    1. расти слишком быстро; заглушать (о растениях)

    2. подавлять, заглушать

  1. чрезмерно разрастаться; делаться слишком большим прям. и перен.

  2. перерастать (что-л.); вырастать (из чего-л.)

Biology (En-Ru)

overgrow

  1. зарастать

  2. перерастать

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It was exactly as he remembered it: an overgrown Swiss chateau with turrets, stately and imposing, surrounded by greenery and overlooking Lake Zurich.
Отель остался точно таким, каким Роберт и помнил его: швейцарский замок с башенками, величественный и респектабельный, окруженный зеленью, с видом на озеро.
Sheldon, Sidney / The Doomsday ConspiracyШелдон, Сидни / Конец света
Конец света
Шелдон, Сидни
© Sidney Sheldon Family Limited Partnership, 1991
© Перевод. А.П. Романов, 1993
© ООО Издательство "АСТ МОСКВА", 2009
The Doomsday Conspiracy
Sheldon, Sidney
© 1991 by Sheldon Literary Trust
Seven photographers were perching in the mighty crown of an isolated tree like a flock of overgrown crows, their eyes fixed on the opposite bank.
В могучей кроне одинокого дерева, как стая огромных ворон, сидело семь фотографов, вперив взгляд в другой берег.
Kundera, Milan / The Unbearable Lightness of BeingКундера, Милан / Невыносимая легкость бытия
Невыносимая легкость бытия
Кундера, Милан
© Н. Шульгина, перевод, 1992
© "Азбука-классика", 2006
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Kundera, Milan
© 1984 by Milan Kundera
© 1984 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.
There were some flower-beds scattered about on it, but they were overgrown with weeds and in the last stage of neglect.
Здесь когда-то были разбиты цветочные клумбы, но теперь никто за ними не ухаживал, и они все заросли сорняками.
Conan Doyle, Arthur / The Firm Of GirdlestoneКонан Дойль, Артур / Торговый Дом Гердлстон
Торговый Дом Гердлстон
Конан Дойль, Артур
© Издательство "Правда", 1966
The Firm Of Girdlestone
Conan Doyle, Arthur
© 1889 by John W. Lowell
At that end the pond was overgrown with weeds by the banks.
Пруд в этом конце, у берега, зарос травой.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor / The possessedДостоевский, Фёдор / Бесы
Бесы
Достоевский, Фёдор
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1989
The possessed
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
I had not been out to Francis's since the week before Bunny died. The trees in the drive were in full leaf and the yard was overgrown and dark.
Я не был в загородном доме с начала апреля; в обрамлении густой листвы и гроздьев сирени он показался мне странным, словно бы незнакомым. Во дворе было тенисто и душно.
Tartt, Donna / The Secret HistoryТартт, Донна / Тайная история
Тайная история
Тартт, Донна
© 1992 by Donna Tartt
© Д. Бородкин, Н. Ленцман, перевод на русский язык, 2007
© ООО "Издательская группа "Аттикус", 2009
The Secret History
Tartt, Donna
© 1992 by Donna Tartt
They were walking those same death fields, now overgrown with forest and jungle.
Сейчас они шли по тем же самым полям смерти, которые с тех пор успели зарасти густыми джунглями.
Rollins, James / Judas StrainРоллинс, Джеймс / Печать Иуды
Печать Иуды
Роллинс, Джеймс
© 2007 by Jim Czajkowski
© С. Саксин, перевод, 2009
© ООО "Издательство "Эксмо", издание на русском языке, 2009
Judas Strain
Rollins, James
© 2007 by Jim Czajkowski
With you it's worse: you're overgrown with figures; figures crawl all over you like lice.
С вами хуже: вы обросли цифрами, по вас цифры ползают, как вши.
Замятин, Евгений / МыZamyatin, Yevgeny / We
We
Zamyatin, Yevgeny
© 1972 by Mirra Ginsburg
Мы
Замятин, Евгений
© Молодая гвардия, 1990
One man in the line was a sight. He was one of those big, overgrown, solemn snoozers that sit on the platform at lectures and look wise.
В шеренге очень интересное зрелище представлял один из тех толстых, перезрелых, высоких, торжественных дураков, которые во время лекции сидят на эстраде и выглядят очень умными.
O.Henry / Holding Up a TrainГенри, О. / Налет на поезд
Налет на поезд
Генри, О.
Holding Up a Train
O.Henry
But “what was is overgrown with the past, and what will be will not be in the old way, but in a new way”, as the popular song says.
Но «что было, то быльем поросло, а что будет, то будет не по-старому, а по-новому», как говорит народная песня.
Плеханов, Г. В. / Наши разногласия. Письмо к П. Л. ЛавровуPlekhanov, G. V. / Our Differences. Letter to P. L. Lavrov
Our Differences. Letter to P. L. Lavrov
Plekhanov, G. V.
Наши разногласия. Письмо к П. Л. Лаврову
Плеханов, Г. В.
© Государственное издательство политической литературы, 1949 г.
They walked through overgrown hayfields and pastures, encountering the foundations of demolished farm houses and buildings, sections of rusted barbed-wire fence, and other remnants of what were once working farms.
Они шли через заросшие высокой травой поля и пастбища, натыкаясь на фундаменты разрушенных поместий и зданий, фрагменты ржавой ограды из колючей проволоки и другие остатки того, что когда‑то являлось действующими фермами.
DeChancie, John / Castle WarДе Ченси, Джон / Замок Воинственный
Замок Воинственный
Де Ченси, Джон
Castle War
DeChancie, John
© 1990 by John DeChancie
They were not rich people; their house was very old-fashioned and built of wood, but comfortable; it stood on a hill between an overgrown courtyard and a garden run wild.
Люди они были небогатые; дом их, весьма старинный, деревянный, но удобный, стоял на горе, между заглохшим садом и заросшим двором.
Тургенев, И.С. / Записки охотника т.2Turgenev, I.S. / A Sportsman's Sketches v.2
A Sportsman's Sketches v.2
Turgenev, I.S.
© 2006 BiblioBazaar
Записки охотника т.2
Тургенев, И.С.
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1975
Great-aunt Zhobelia reminisced, rambling through her memories like a gracious lady through a flourishing but overgrown and unkempt garden.
Бабушка Жобелия блуждала среди своих воспоминаний, как знатная дама в цветущем, но запущенном саду.
Banks, Iain / WhitБэнкс, Иэн / Умм, или Исида среди Неспасенных
Умм, или Исида среди Неспасенных
Бэнкс, Иэн
© 1995 by Iain Banks
© Е. Петрова, перевод, 2006
© ООО "ИД "Домино", 2007
Whit
Banks, Iain
© 1995 Iain Banks
'No, it is not deep,' observed Sutchok, who spoke in a strange, far-away voice, as though he were in a dream, 'and there's sedge and mud at the bottom, and it's all overgrown with sedge.
– Да, он не глубок, – заметил Сучок, который говорил как-то странно, словно спросонья, – да на дне тина и трава, и весь он травой зарос.
Turgenev, I.S. / A Sportsman's Sketches v.1Тургенев, И.С. / Записки охотника т.1
Записки охотника т.1
Тургенев, И.С.
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1975
A Sportsman's Sketches v.1
Turgenev, I.S.
© 2006 BiblioBazaar
I did at last reach the end of the wood, but there was no road of any sort there; some kind of low bushes overgrown with long grass extended far and wide before me; behind them in the far, far distance could be discerned a tract of waste land.
Я добрался наконец до угла леса, но там не было никакой дороги: какие-то некошеные, низкие кусты широко расстилались передо мною, а за ними, далеко-далеко, виднелось пустынное поле.
Turgenev, I.S. / A Sportsman's Sketches v.1Тургенев, И.С. / Записки охотника т.1
Записки охотника т.1
Тургенев, И.С.
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1975
A Sportsman's Sketches v.1
Turgenev, I.S.
© 2006 BiblioBazaar
At dawn he pulled off it, bumped across a shallow roadside ditch, drove through an old field overgrown with weeds and brush, and parked in a grove of oaks at one end of the field.
На рассвете он съехал с нее, проехал по старому, заросшему сорняками и кустарником полю и остановился у дубовой рощи.
Simak, Clifford D. / Why Call Them Back from HeavenСаймак, Клиффорд Д. / Зачем их звать обратно с небес?
Зачем их звать обратно с небес?
Саймак, Клиффорд Д.
© Перевод. А. Левкин, 2005
© 1967 by Clifford D. Simak
Why Call Them Back from Heaven
Simak, Clifford D.
©, 1967, by Clifford D. Simak

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ˌəuvə'grəuVerbрасти слишком быстро; заглушатьExamples

The tares overgrew the wheat. — Пшеница заросла сорняками.

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Collocations

overgrown teenager
акселерат
overgrown teenager
акселератка
overgrown with moss
замшелый
be overgrown with moss
замшеть
be overgrown
зарастать
become covered / overgrown with moss
обомшеть
become / be overgrown
обрастать
become overgrown
порастать
overgrown place
трущоба
become overgrown
цвести
overgrown pond
заросший пруд
overgrown malt
переросший солод
overgrown wool
слишком длинная шерсть

Word forms

overgrow

verb
Basic forms
Pastovergrew
Imperativeovergrow
Present Participle (Participle I)overgrowing
Past Participle (Participle II)overgrown
Present Indefinite, Active Voice
I overgrowwe overgrow
you overgrowyou overgrow
he/she/it overgrowsthey overgrow
Present Continuous, Active Voice
I am overgrowingwe are overgrowing
you are overgrowingyou are overgrowing
he/she/it is overgrowingthey are overgrowing
Present Perfect, Active Voice
I have overgrownwe have overgrown
you have overgrownyou have overgrown
he/she/it has overgrownthey have overgrown
Present Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I have been overgrowingwe have been overgrowing
you have been overgrowingyou have been overgrowing
he/she/it has been overgrowingthey have been overgrowing
Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I overgrewwe overgrew
you overgrewyou overgrew
he/she/it overgrewthey overgrew
Past Continuous, Active Voice
I was overgrowingwe were overgrowing
you were overgrowingyou were overgrowing
he/she/it was overgrowingthey were overgrowing
Past Perfect, Active Voice
I had overgrownwe had overgrown
you had overgrownyou had overgrown
he/she/it had overgrownthey had overgrown
Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I had been overgrowingwe had been overgrowing
you had been overgrowingyou had been overgrowing
he/she/it had been overgrowingthey had been overgrowing
Future Indefinite, Active Voice
I shall/will overgrowwe shall/will overgrow
you will overgrowyou will overgrow
he/she/it will overgrowthey will overgrow
Future Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will be overgrowingwe shall/will be overgrowing
you will be overgrowingyou will be overgrowing
he/she/it will be overgrowingthey will be overgrowing
Future Perfect, Active Voice
I shall/will have overgrownwe shall/will have overgrown
you will have overgrownyou will have overgrown
he/she/it will have overgrownthey will have overgrown
Future Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will have been overgrowingwe shall/will have been overgrowing
you will have been overgrowingyou will have been overgrowing
he/she/it will have been overgrowingthey will have been overgrowing
Future in the Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I should/would overgrowwe should/would overgrow
you would overgrowyou would overgrow
he/she/it would overgrowthey would overgrow
Future in the Past Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would be overgrowingwe should/would be overgrowing
you would be overgrowingyou would be overgrowing
he/she/it would be overgrowingthey would be overgrowing
Future in the Past Perfect, Active Voice
I should/would have overgrownwe should/would have overgrown
you would have overgrownyou would have overgrown
he/she/it would have overgrownthey would have overgrown
Future in the Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would have been overgrowingwe should/would have been overgrowing
you would have been overgrowingyou would have been overgrowing
he/she/it would have been overgrowingthey would have been overgrowing
Present Indefinite, Passive Voice
I am overgrownwe are overgrown
you are overgrownyou are overgrown
he/she/it is overgrownthey are overgrown
Present Continuous, Passive Voice
I am being overgrownwe are being overgrown
you are being overgrownyou are being overgrown
he/she/it is being overgrownthey are being overgrown
Present Perfect, Passive Voice
I have been overgrownwe have been overgrown
you have been overgrownyou have been overgrown
he/she/it has been overgrownthey have been overgrown
Past Indefinite, Passive Voice
I was overgrownwe were overgrown
you were overgrownyou were overgrown
he/she/it was overgrownthey were overgrown
Past Continuous, Passive Voice
I was being overgrownwe were being overgrown
you were being overgrownyou were being overgrown
he/she/it was being overgrownthey were being overgrown
Past Perfect, Passive Voice
I had been overgrownwe had been overgrown
you had been overgrownyou had been overgrown
he/she/it had been overgrownthey had been overgrown
Future Indefinite, Passive Voice
I shall/will be overgrownwe shall/will be overgrown
you will be overgrownyou will be overgrown
he/she/it will be overgrownthey will be overgrown
Future Perfect, Passive Voice
I shall/will have been overgrownwe shall/will have been overgrown
you will have been overgrownyou will have been overgrown
he/she/it will have been overgrownthey will have been overgrown