overgrew

verb

past tense of overgrow
as in proliferated

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  1. proliferated
  2. flourished
  3. thrived
  4. prospered
Verb
  • Construction zones proliferated in the area after the January 2025 fires that destroyed local homes and businesses, resulting in reduced speed limits.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026
  • As a result, no single authority can set priorities or quickly mobilize resources, and criminal organizations have proliferated in the bureaucracy’s seams.
    — MATIAS SPEKTOR, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of proliferated
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  • In the Ming era, for instance, foreign beliefs such as Manichaeism, a Persian faith that had flourished under Mongol rule, were suppressed.
    — Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026
  • So why has Hyperliquid’s DAT flourished while the others have stumbled?
    — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of flourished
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  • Our species has survived and thrived through our ability to live and work in tribes.
    — Michael Morris, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
  • One of the last of the Chicago bluesmen who thrived in the mid-20th century, Guy has become so much the ideal of the genre that musicians didn't need to perform his songs to summon his legend.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of thrived
Verb
  • Mystic, when his great, great, great- grandfather prospered in the shipping industry.
    — Madeline Bilis, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The original finders prospered, with George, Jim, and Charlie making about $1 million in gold, while word of their discovery spread.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of prospered
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