overgrow

overgrow
a) To grow beyond ones boundaries or containments.

The utmost they aimed at doing was thoroughly to clear the old Church of all the corruptions and superstitions which had disfigured it in the course of ages, and which, like the flaunting ivy overgrowing some ancient building [...]

b) To grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing).

One wall advertised a dense muddle of ivy overgrowing its prefab brick, while a miniature moat with a jerry-built bridge arcing over it snaked around one of the "halls" (as real universities dub their constituent structures).


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