hypertrophied
- past participle of hypertrophy.
- past tense form of hypertrophy.
Example Sentences
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It is a condition in which the heart muscle becomes overgrown or "hypertrophied".
From BBC • Jan. 3, 2023
That muscle swiftly hypertrophied, or bulked up, providing an accelerated version of resistance training.
From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2021
Or what about those profitless but hypertrophied creatures of the dot-com boom, such as theglobe.com? In 1999 a company called Pixelon raised $35 million, Mr. McCullough notes, to develop video and audio streaming.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2018
Administrative structures inherited from the British empire, and amazingly unchanged in many respects, have hypertrophied into nightmarish bureaucracy.
From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2013
The patient, a girl, aged five years and ten months, suffered from hypertrophied tonsils and post-nasal adenoid growths.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 by Various
