Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med. & Biol.) Excessively developed; characterized by hypertrophy.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
hypertrophy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of an organ or body part) excessively enlarged as a result of increased size in the constituent cells
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Examples
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Some I recognized as a kind of hypertrophied raspberry and orange, but for the most part they were strange.
The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006
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Some I recognized as a kind of hypertrophied raspberry and orange, but for the most part they were strange.
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973
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Some I recognized as a kind of hypertrophied raspberry and orange, but for the most part they were strange.
The Time Machine 1906
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Some I recognized as a kind of hypertrophied raspberry and orange, but for the most part they were strange.
Chapter 4 Herbert George 1898
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Some I recognized as a kind of hypertrophied raspberry and orange, but for the most part they were strange.
The Time Machine Herbert George 1895
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Jerusalem centers on Johnny "Rooster" Byron, a hypertrophied, unemployed Lord of Misrule, currently squatting in a trailer on some forestland in southwest England.
Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem Eamon Murphy 2011
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Jerusalem centers on Johnny "Rooster" Byron, a hypertrophied, unemployed Lord of Misrule, currently squatting in a trailer on some forestland in southwest England.
Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem Eamon Murphy 2011
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Jerusalem centers on Johnny "Rooster" Byron, a hypertrophied, unemployed Lord of Misrule, currently squatting in a trailer on some forestland in southwest England.
Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem Eamon Murphy 2011
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Today, they contend, those qualities have been eclipsed “by the hypertrophied commercial individualism of the age of extremes” — as high-altitude adventure has become high-tech, it has become compromised, disputatious, even nihilistic.
Cover to Cover 2009
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Mannikarottu AS, Disanto ME, Zderic SA, Wein AJ, Chacko S.: Altered expression of thin filament-associated proteins in hypertrophied urinary bladder smooth muscle.
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