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overgrowth

[ oh-ver-grohth ]

noun

  1. a growth overspreading or covering something.
  2. excessive growth:

    to prune a young tree so as to prevent overgrowth.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of overgrowth1

First recorded in 1595–1605; over- + growth

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Example Sentences

The modest violet may exhale its fragrance through an overgrowth of noxious weeds—and humanity bears out the simile.

Just what causes this overgrowth of connective tissue is not clear.

It is the overgrowth of these qualities, to the detriment of the artistic element, that mars her later works.

Lightning on peaks which were like polished jet—bare rock above, the lush overgrowth of jungle below.

The nucleus of Biarritz is old, but that is out of sight in the modern overgrowth; Biarritz, as it is, is of this half century.

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