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pot-bound

a. (context of a potted plant English) Having outgrown the size of the pot, such that its roots have no more room to grow.

Usage examples of "pot-bound".

These were surveyor’s plats laying out Ravenscar’s scheme to embed a few square blocks of Cartesian rationality on the pot-bound root-ball that was the London street system.

Garnering little pot-bound slips of power, consumed by the dreams of what I might have had.