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overgrowth
CIDE DICTIONARY
overgrowth, n.
- Excessive growth. [1913 Webster]
- A growth that has covered somethin over. [PJC]
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overgrowth
abandon, boundlessness, egregiousness, enormousness, exaggeration, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme, extremes, extremism, extremity, fabulousness, giantism, gigantism, gluttony, hyperbole, hypertrophy, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, incontinence, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinateness, intemperance, intemperateness, inundation, monstrousness, nimiety, outrageousness, outsize, overdevelopment, overflowing, overgreatness, overindulgence, overlargeness, overmuch, overmuchness, overpass, overrun, overrunning, overspreading, overweight, radicalism, superiority, surplus, too much, too-muchness, unconscionableness, undueness, unreasonableness, unrestrainednessROGET THESAURUS
overgrowth
Expansion
N expansion, increase of size, enlargement, extension, augmentation, amplification, ampliation, aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction, turgescence, turgidness, turgidity, dispansion, obesity, hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus, dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension, puffing, puffiness, inflation, pandiculation, dilatability, expansibility, germination, growth, upgrowth, accretion, budding, gemmation, overgrowth, overdistension, hypertrophy, tympany, bulb, plumper, superiority of size, big bang, Hubble constant, expanded larger, &c (large), swollen, expansive, wide open, wide spread, flabelliform, overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical, pot bellied, swag bellied, edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended, patulous, bulbous, full blown, full grown, full formed, big, abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate, tumefacient, tumefying.For further exploring for "overgrowth" in Webster Dictionary Online