forgrowen

Middle English

Verb

forgrowen

1. to overgrow
   • c. 1470, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Floure and the Leafe, lines 43-46,^[1]

     And at the last a path of litle breade
     I found, that greatly had not used be,
     For it forgrowen was with grasse and weede
     That well unneth a wight might it se.

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