overgrow

Jaynes said Gaon is a private man who obtained a biology degree in college and allows the vegetation in his front yard to overgrow so he can observe butterflies and other insects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025

He will be checking on certain energetic perennials that his compositions rely on: Without editing, they will overgrow their territories, throwing off the weight of a design.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2022

People who take high doses of antibiotics tend to lose many of their normal gut bacteria, allowing a naturally antibiotic-resistant species called Clostridium difficile to overgrow and cause severe gastric problems, especially chronic diarrhea.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

Mr Merrick, who was from Leicester, is thought to have had a condition called Proteus syndrome which can cause tissue to overgrow.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2021

Our bleak hills shall bud and blow, Vines our rocks shall overgrow, Plenty in our valleys flow;— And when vengeance clouds your skies, Hither shall ye turn your eyes, As the damned on Paradise!

From The Liberty Minstrel by George W. Clark

A few days of stubble almost overgrew a soul patch under his lip, like weeds overtaking a garden.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2016

Grass overgrew "South Penn" embankments, saplings pushed their way through its rock ballast and water seeped higher and higher over the rubble of the tunnels.

From Time Magazine Archive

It showed no variation but of tint: green, where rush and moss overgrew the marshes; black, where the dry soil bore only heath.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

As weeds, rank and sturdy, overrun a garden, choking out other plants, so in Britain, Saxon life overgrew Roman life, inch by inch, almost imperceptibly.

From Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain by Margaret West Kinney

"Oh, this is the life!" cried Grace, as Nabob stepped daintily over the rocks and underbrush that almost completely overgrew the narrow path.

From The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run by Laura Lee Hope

Researchers speculate that people may have brought the rodent to California as a natural remedy to battle overgrowing vegetation or simply because they liked them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

We are witnessing a population of infant black holes overgrowing their nurseries and flourishing faster than expected in the distant, early universe.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2023

"To walk on the roads because the path isn't safe because of all the hemlock and vegetation overgrowing, they're being put in this really difficult and unsafe position," she says.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2023

Both animals are being used to munch overgrowing vegetation and fertilize the soil to “rewild” the landscapes.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 7, 2023

Yet there were wild gardens, as beautiful as any that ever man cultivated, overgrowing the roofs of some of the cottages, flowers and creeping plants. 

From Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by John Campbell Shairp

They are often "outdated, too narrow, overgrown with vegetation and buckled by tree roots", complained Lisa Feitsch of the cycling association ADFC.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

The housework piled up, the yard is overgrown, her expenses have risen and she can’t keep up with her health now that he is gone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

By the time Det Con Ryan came across it, it was partially obscured by overgrown hedges and long grass.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Shag carpet covered original terra-cotta floors, high-gloss paint coated nearly every wooden surface and overgrown weeds crowded the yard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

All I could do was watch and shake my head from the tree while down below on the overgrown lawn Mitch waved up at me all happy and carefree.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline