forgrowen
Middle English
Verb
forgrowen
- to overgrow
- c. 1470, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Floure and the Leafe, lines 43-46,
- 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.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- c. 1470, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Floure and the Leafe, lines 43-46,
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