overgrew

past tense of overgrow

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overgrew
Verb
  • Tributes also proliferated online.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Other area stores followed and union organizing drives proliferated across the United States to include more than 150 stores by March of 2022.
    Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The 19-year-old England Under-21 player has thrived and been tipped for senior international honours by Hurzeler.
    Felipe Cardenas, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The massive popular revolt against the 2021 coup, particularly among young people who had thrived during the previous decade, demonstrates that that strategy in fact succeeded, if at enormous cost, as the Myanmar military appears incapable now of reasserting its control nationwide.
    Derek Mitchell, NPR, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Overgrew.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overgrew. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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