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overgrassed

overgrassed adjective: overgrown, or covered over, with grass.

Adjective

overgrassed (comparative more overgrassed, superlative most overgrassed)

  1. overgrown, or covered over, with grass.
    • For they be like foul quagmires overgrass'd1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC
    • A land that had been overgrassed and undergrazed had been put to a higher use2012, Paul L. Hedren, After Custer

Forms of overgrassed

comparativemore overgrassed
superlativemost overgrassed

Origin of overgrassed

From over- + grassed.

Questions about overgrassed

What does overgrassed mean?
Overgrassed means overgrown, or covered over, with grass.
What part of speech is overgrassed?
Overgrassed is an adjective.

Words near overgrassed in the dictionary

  1. overgrains
  2. overgrand
  3. overgranulated
  4. overgranulation
  5. overgrasping
  6. overgrassed
  7. overgrassing
  8. overgrateful
  9. overgratefully
  10. overgratification
  11. overgratified

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