overgrew

verb

past tense of overgrow
as in proliferated

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  1. proliferated
  2. flourished
  3. thrived
  4. prospered
Verb
  • Chmerkovskiy quickly took down the offending TikTok, but not before fan screenshots proliferated and Inaba got wind of it.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026
  • It was usually made with gin, but Fizz variations proliferated throughout every spirit and style.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of proliferated
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  • The demand has grown so high that an underground gray market has flourished in delivering those cult-classic burgers to hungry customers.
    — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
  • In this respect this limited expansion differed fundamentally from the chain stores that flourished from the 1990s.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of flourished
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  • Our species was born in the cold Pleistocene, thrived in the comfortable Holocene, and may have plunged Earth into this new epoch, defined by our own dominance.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Shooters have thrived in Campbell’s spacing due to how much attention point guards and bigs generate off the pick-and-roll.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 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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