overgrow

"Farmers are forced to overgrow to meet strict supermarket contracts, only to see tons of perfectly good food rejected because it doesn't meet cosmetic standards."

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2025

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

How had this subterranean vegetation contrived to pierce and overgrow the summit of the country?

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary

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

The night was closing in apace as I and my three Malay companions pushed our way through the underwood which overgrew the narrow wood path.

From In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula by Sir Hugh Charles Clifford

Indeed your land returned, when you returned, * To whilom light      which overgrew its gloom: Green grew the land that was afore dust-brown.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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 said.

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

This whole countryside is a ruined waste—villages destroyed, weeds overgrowing everything; and no inhabitants except troops.

From War Letters of a Public-School Boy by Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones

What had started near a park, where overgrown grass and scrubland enabled the fire spread, had quickly travelled through 35 gardens.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

A few crumbling concrete blocks in an overgrown field are all that remains visible of what was once a sprawling Nazi forced labour complex around the Austrian town of Leobersdorf.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 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

The next house down, the one with the boarded-up windows, had overgrown grass and weeds and was covered in ivy.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste