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overgrow

verb

as in to proliferate

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Recent Examples of overgrow That expanse could be tied thematically to steps leading to a high upper terrace in the back of the property, The terrace has expansive canyon views but has long been overgrown by brush. —

R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025 Other homes seemed to be abandoned—partially collapsed and overgrown with weeds. —

Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2024 There’s a digital painting of an eerie glasshouse overgrown with red roses by Zhang Xiaotong; Too Rich City, a digital video depicting a surreal Chinese cityscape; and a humorous digital comic by Tang Xinrui where a human are the ones ogled by fish at an aquarium. —

Ann Binlot, ARTnews.com, 29 Nov. 2024 The organization also recommends that the inside of their enclosure be lined with absorbent bedding, as hamsters tend to chew on things to keep their teeth from overgrowing. —

Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for overgrow

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After the 2023 Supreme Court ruling, which deemed affirmative action in university admissions unconstitutional, attacks on DEI proliferated, and the term became a right-wing bogeyman blamed for almost anything that goes wrong in any workplace.

— Kizzy Cox, Essence, 11 Feb. 2025
In the following decades, their offspring proliferated there and in other European zoos.

— Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025