different between overgrow vs overbrow

English

Etymology

over- +? grow

Verb

overgrow (third-person singular simple present overgrows, present participle overgrowing, simple past overgrew, past participle overgrown)

1. (intransitive) To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment, or beyond the proper size.
2. (transitive) To grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing).
   • 2008, J. R. Ward, Lover Enshrined:

     "If there is ivy overgrowing things, then we shall clean it up."

Translations

English

Etymology

over- +? brow

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /???v?(?)?b?a?/
• (noun) IPA^(key): /???v?(?)b?a?/

Verb

overbrow (third-person singular simple present overbrows, present participle overbrowing, simple past and past participle overbrowed)

1. (poetic, transitive) To hang over like a brow; to impend over.
   • 1852, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Woods in Winter", in The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

     With solemn feet I tread the hill, That overbrows the lonely vale

   • 18000, William Wordsworth, Michael

     Did with a huge projection overbrow
     Large space beneath.

References

overbrow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.