Overgrew

Tall grass overgrew the mine sites, and the mine equipment began to rust and crumble as the years wore on. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“We should take this all out,” he says, nodding at the crumbling leaves, the tomato plants that long ago overgrew their stakes and now trail the dirt. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Your hatred68 of your father was of such stature that it entirely outstripped, overgrew, and overshadowed your love of me. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Those details overgrew, if one may so express it, the original trunk of the story itself as fungi grow over the stump of a tree. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The lawn overgrew what remained of the brick edging along the front walk. ❋ Patterson, James, 1947- (2005)

He waited in the shadows of the barred gate of Palmer College as the University proctor made his way along the lane, pausing every few yards to rustle with his long staff among the stalks of climbing bamboo that overgrew the red walls of Graces, Palmer's ancient rival. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The broken battlements, enwreathed with ivy, proclaimed the fallen grandeur of the place, while the shattered vacant window-frames exhibited its desolation, and the high grass that overgrew the threshold seemed to say how long it was since mortal foot had entered. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Alas, it is shame that ever ye were made knight, to see such a lad to match such a knight, as the weed overgrew the corn. ❋ Unknown (2003)

An arched doorway had opened from the house into this thickened square, but it was soiled and dusty; and the damp weeds that overgrew the quadrangle drooped undisturbed against it. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Our hot bread was in our hands, and, as we ate, there mingled with it the taste of the dust of our large force crossing the valley bottoms, and some taint of the strange keen smell of the wormwood which overgrew the slopes. ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)

Sewing and quilting had been part of my life for years, and I looked forward to creating a tangible memorial that would show the times before AIDS, before pain and ugliness overgrew so much of our lives. ❋ Kathy Lamancusa (2002)

Mma Ramotswe had always intended to clear it entirely but had never got round to cutting back the tangle of bush'stunted thorn trees, high grass, and sundry shrubs-which overgrew the back section of her plot. ❋ Smith, Alexander McCall (2002)

In places the vegetation so overgrew the path that no light from the sky entered, and in those black tunnels each patroller proceeded by sound and guess only. ❋ Bing West (2000)

He and Rollo had been first soused in the river, then rubbed with tomatoes from the burgeoning vines that overgrew the necessary house out back. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1997)