overgrow

Example Sentences

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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

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

Fancy may overgrow itself, and take an undue predominance, so that life is tuned to the pitch of imagination and not imagination to the pitch of life.

From The Education of Catholic Girls by Stuart, Janet Erskine