overgrowth
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vərˌgroʊθ
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| —vb , -grows, -growing, -grew, -grown | |
| 1. | (tr) to grow over or across (an area, path, lawn, etc) |
| 2. | (tr) to choke or supplant by a stronger growth |
| 3. | (tr) to grow too large for |
| 4. | (intr) to grow beyond normal size |
| 'overgrowth | |
| —n | |
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Overgrowth
is always a great word to know.
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Example sentences
Farmers were clearing their land of brush and overgrowth, so there were a lot of fires in the area.
These measurements help determine the condition of the connective tissue and amount of gingival overgrowth or recession.
So an overgrowth of these pathogens would cause normal body channels to become a kind of electrical channel.
The air chills and dampens in the shaded overgrowth.
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