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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are overgrown" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something, typically plants or vegetation, that has grown excessively or beyond its intended size.
Example: "The garden has been neglected, and now the flowers and weeds are overgrown, making it difficult to walk through."
Alternatives: "have become unruly" or "are excessively grown."
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are overgrown
verb
Past participle of overgrow
Exact(60)
Rusting Yugo cars are overgrown with brambles and weeds.
The dirt paths are overgrown, walked by stray dogs.
Today's forests are not just parched; they are overgrown.
They are overgrown with grass or buckled by tree roots.
Ruins of the mine are overgrown and surrounded in mud.
The tracks are overgrown with weeds, at some points completely obscured by them.
The gardens are overgrown and tangled; the Spanish-style mansion is vacant and mostly unused.
The gardens are overgrown, and the greenhouse has broken windows and rotting wood frames.
Repot those that need it and take cuttings of any that are overgrown and need trimming.
Most grinduri are arable and cultivated, and some are overgrown with tall oak forests.
The creek banks are overgrown with cottonwoods, whose leaves tremble in the breeze.
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