Examples of use of overgrowth
1. Many of California‘s levees were built decades ago by farmers and are riddled with rodent holes and weakened by overgrowth.
2. Retin A cream may help to reverse the problem, or Dithranol (a tar–like ointment) discourages the overgrowth of the outer layer of skin cells.
3. Algae overgrowth and a resulting oxygen–starved "dead zone" in Lake Erie, all but eliminated by the early 1'80s, are returning.
4. When I last did this drive in 1''3, the overgrowth was beginning to engulf an abandoned village on the main road.
5. Often the pregnancy hormones, which soften the ligaments elsewhere in the body in preparation for childbirth, promote a spongy overgrowth of new bone and are blamed for accelerating the process.