overgrow

We moved on to his backyard, where mi tío had trimmed hedges that the previous owner let overgrow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2023

Don’t let plants overgrow them, and make sure no dirt or debris is getting in.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

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

The vines of a single zucchini or butternut squash can easily overgrow your entire raised bed.

From Salon ● May 22, 2022

Its climate, too, is softened by the nearness of the Gulf Stream, and yew and arbutus, as well as tropical cryptogamia and Alpine plants, overgrow every available spot along the sides of the rough defile.

From The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway by Robert Lloyd Praeger

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

Ivy overgrew this; below a wide and ragged breach a pine had set its roots in the hillside.

From Foes by Mary Johnston

Those details overgrew, if one may so express it, the original trunk of the story itself as fungi grow over the stump of a tree.

From Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories by Constance Garnett

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

Each ivy leaf overgrowing the wall of the churchless church-yard hard by, now abandoned, pecked its neighbour smartly, and the vane on the new Victorian-Gothic church in the new spot had already begun to creak.

From Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

"It rained a lot this winter; the pastures were very overgrown," Rodriguez said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 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

It’s true that many decades of poor land management have resulted in overgrown forests in Canada, but the same goes for the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Is Microsoft laying off 3,200 employees from the Xbox division just a new boss coming in and pruning an overgrown asset, or is it a sign that console gaming is coming to the end?

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

“So is lying around here waiting to be snatched away by some overgrown bracelet!”

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia