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

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

And fifty years suffice to overgrow With gentle memories the foul weeds of hate That shamed his grave.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Emma Lazarus

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

From the tangle of roses, sweet fern and bayberry that overgrew the fields the note of a thrush rose clear on the quiet air.

From Flood Tide by Sara Ware Bassett

"Follow me," and starting off we were soon crossing the bed of the lake, being compelled to advance cautiously owing to the slippery nature of the weeds and water-plants that overgrew the stones.

From The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason by William Le Queux

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

The pre-existent spirit here well-nigh disappears under stifling folds of vegetable leaf and animal incrustation of overgrowing husk.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne

It remainsfenced-off, with trash and graffitiand with overgrown vines covering tributes to Kennedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

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

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

Their overgrown gray manes completely covered their eyes.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan