Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Overgrown with weeds.
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Examples
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Eighteenth-century Athens was still a real city, but the engraved plates of these Levantine works scan vast unpopulated landscapes where the isolation of the ancient ruins exudes the same melancholy air as Piranesi's weed-grown Roman Forum, albeit in a more crisply linear, neoclassical artistic style.
A Silly, Very Cultured Club Rowland, Ingrid D. 2009
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Not even after Jancy went to the trouble to clear off a stretch of cluttered, weed-grown land to plant a vegetable garden.
William S. And The Great Escape Zilpha Keatley Snyder 2009
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In the distance, when a vehicle approached from the west, he could dimly see the abandoned drive-in theater and the weed-grown miniature-golf course and the silhouettes of the Cadillac car bodies buried nose-down in the hardpan.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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Not even after Jancy went to the trouble to clear off a stretch of cluttered, weed-grown land to plant a vegetable garden.
William S. And The Great Escape Zilpha Keatley Snyder 2009
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Not even after Jancy went to the trouble to clear off a stretch of cluttered, weed-grown land to plant a vegetable garden.
William S. And The Great Escape Zilpha Keatley Snyder 2009
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In the distance, when a vehicle approached from the west, he could dimly see the abandoned drive-in theater and the weed-grown miniature-golf course and the silhouettes of the Cadillac car bodies buried nose-down in the hardpan.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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She wandered the ancient street, cracked and weed-grown, heaved with the passage of hundreds of years of frost and rain, and turned to face the back door of the office building.
Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 2.2 of 31.1 2009
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In the distance, when a vehicle approached from the west, he could dimly see the abandoned drive-in theater and the weed-grown miniature-golf course and the silhouettes of the Cadillac car bodies buried nose-down in the hardpan.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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Not even after Jancy went to the trouble to clear off a stretch of cluttered, weed-grown land to plant a vegetable garden.
William S. And The Great Escape Zilpha Keatley Snyder 2009
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She frowned, glancing at the weed-grown churchyard and the crumbling building beyond.
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