What's the difference between outgrown and overgrown?

Outgrown


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Outgrow

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unfortunately, peanut reaction is not outgrown and remains a life-long threat.
  • (2) She read the stories and the novel first as an adult, and in the years since, turning to them again and again, she has never felt herself to have outgrown them.
  • (3) Exposure to interferon did not modify the expression of filaments in the outgrown blastocyst.
  • (4) A radical reworking of Douglas Sirk with Julianne Moore's 1950s housewife married to repressed homosexual Dennis Quaid, the film earned Haynes an Oscar nomination and confirmed him as a major talent, and one who'd outgrown the role of poster boy for New Queer Cinema.
  • (5) The company has outgrown its present R&D centre, which employs 110 people.
  • (6) Bumetanide has outgrown to become a tool for physiologists and pharmacologists in renal transport research.
  • (7) Mature animals that have "outgrown" their genetic susceptibility to audiogenic seizures are made susceptible again by acetoxycycloheximide.
  • (8) Most children with generalized tonic-clonic seizures have a benign developmental disorder of seizure threshold that will be outgrown with or without treatment.
  • (9) We conclude that, although respiratory symptoms disappear in one half the children with asthma and although adults may believe that they have outgrown their disease, adults still have the potency to respond to inhaled allergens.
  • (10) However, most tumors develop regions that have outgrown their vascular supply, and therefore present severe hypoxia.
  • (11) Primary trophoblastic giant cells outgrown from blastocysts and placental trophoblast from 16-day pregnancies expressed antigens of both sources at all stages in culture.
  • (12) Spurs, famously formed by school old boys who met under a lamppost on Tottenham High Road in 1882 to discuss playing the great new game of football, have outgrown the home they moved into 17 years later.
  • (13) It suggests that Record Store Day isn’t necessary any more; the vinyl boom has outgrown it.
  • (14) He had a prior cardiac arrest and had outgrown need for a tracheostomy.
  • (15) In many ways, Luther's key players have outgrown it.
  • (16) Prospective studies have demonstrated that many patients who had seemingly outgrown their disease experienced symptoms again as they grew older.
  • (17) In this report, we provide evidence that, although it is not essential, the gIII protein is required for efficient virus growth and that gIII mutants are quickly outgrown by wild-type virus in mixed infections.
  • (18) In a sweatshirt and jeans, sluggish with jetlag, at 46 he has outgrown the buff pretty-boy look of his youth – and some of his old habits too.
  • (19) Some are outgrown, others are followed by serious problems; a third group may develop a new problem at maturity.
  • (20) But it is absolutely typical of the Orange prize founder Kate Mosse to present the end of the 17-year sponsorship as a blessing in disguise – and to suggest, in the nicest possible way, that the literary grandees behind the award had in any case outgrown their relationship with the mobile phone company before it merged with T-Mobile and decided to refocus its sponsorship on film.

Overgrown


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Overgrow

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But do you know the thing that really bites?” he pointed to his home, which was not visible behind an overgrown hedge.
  • (2) The organism was readily recovered from the lesions except when overgrown by post mortem contaminants.
  • (3) Myelograms showed spinal stenosis as a result of atlanto-axial dislocation, or anterior extradural compression from overgrown cartilage and posteriorly dislocated tip of shortened odontoid process.
  • (4) At surgery, dense adhesions were found within the joint, the articular cartilage was overgrown with pannus extending out to the lateral patella, and there was extensive deformity of the femoral condyle and tibial plateau.
  • (5) Further investigations have shown that all three B. coagulans-strains, although originating from different sources, were overgrown by B. subtilis.
  • (6) One of only two artworks on display to feature any colour is Farewell, based on a picture she took of her father looking out from his study into his wild, overgrown back garden for the last time.
  • (7) After incubation at 22 degrees C for 14 days, the fruits and juices overgrown with mould were homogenized with ethyl acetate and subjected to thinlayer chromatography.
  • (8) The site of entry is not usually the wound, but the intestinal tract, which becomes overgrown by the yeasts as a consequence of the requisite therapy with antibacterial antibiotics in high dosage.
  • (9) With Estonia one of the most sparsely populated countries in the EU, the border is largely rural and in many places densely thicketed and overgrown.
  • (10) • It was a good early spring and early summer for many flowers as the dry weather meant they were not overgrown by vigorous grasses.
  • (11) The stents were overgrown with tracheal epithelium and, except for granuloma formation, elicited no complications.
  • (12) The tick has one generation per year and the adult female, which causes almost all paralysis, is abundant in spring and early summer and occurs most commonly in overgrown or regrowth country where bandicoots are abundant.
  • (13) Additionally, the body weight of children with undeveloped skeleton and muscles was close to the normal and it was due to overgrown fat tissue.
  • (14) After the growth hormone deficiency had been diagnosed and hormone substitute administered the dental age of the girl presented came closer to that of her age and sex-matched controls but did not reach the corresponding values even though the teeth were exposed by excising the overgrown gingiva.
  • (15) Ointments and oils can be overgrown only by highly specialized organisms but if there is condensed water as a film at boundary surfaces much more microorganism species can grow.
  • (16) It was also possible to identify Mycoplasma colonies overgrown by bacterial or fungal contaminants.
  • (17) The CsA responders had significantly more gingival units overgrown as compared with the Aza responders (P less than 0.005).
  • (18) Contrary to this, B-max was found to be significantly increased in the overgrown tissue sample compared to normal.
  • (19) The fibroblasts from normal and overgrown sites were studied in vitro.
  • (20) I never thought I would be calling for the day when men were men, but liberal democracy hasn’t done a very good job at stopping the overgrown tots, has it?

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