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outgrow
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. grow too large or too mature for; "I have outgrown these clothes" grow too large for [syn: overgrow ] grow faster than [also: outgrown , outgrew ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outgrow \Out*grow"\, v. t. [imp. Outgrew ; p. p. Outgrown ; p. pr. & vb. n. Outgrowing .] To surpass in growing; to grow more than. --Shak. To grow out of or away from; to grow too large, or too aged, for; as, to outgrow clothing; to outgrow usefulness; ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "to surpass in growth," from out + grow (v.). Meaning "to become too large or too mature for" is attested from 1660s. Related: Outgrowing ; outgrown .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Kara's already outgrown her shoes. ▪ Many illicit drug users simply outgrow the habit once they reach their thirties. ▪ The female population outgrew the male population in most of the experiments. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ...
Usage examples of outgrow.
Even in this somewhat advanced stage of the disease, when the symptoms are so apparent, many cases are shamefully neglected because an ignorant adviser says it is nothing serious and that the patient will outgrow it.
It can be treated with drugs called beta-blockers, but most folks end up outgrowing the condition.
Already Pete was outgrowing the shirt, and the hems on the sleeves had been turned down as far as possible.
Already I had delayed too long, for he was rising twenty, and outgrowing his tutelage.
But when at the University she found herself outgrowing the ordinary standards of opinion, conceit at first took possession of her.
She thinks, perhaps, that she has outgrown her need for me as a councillor.
Adamuneve and Christopher Clumbus and a sun with a face and a moon with one too, a stock of stories never discarded but only outgrown, gratefully, name by face, like an old sunsuit.
The practice of constantly aiming to destroy the credit of those professional and business creditors who refuse to remain at the mercy of those who would serve only their own selfish aims, is a notorious failing which, the sooner outgrown or uprooted, the better.
It is noticeable, however, that this is being rapidly outgrown and more self-control is being practiced.
Oh, let us purge these statements of outgrown crudities, cruelties, falsities, blasphemies, infamies!
I am perfectly well aware that the most of us who are here have given up this idea, though there may remain fragments and suggestions of it in our minds still haunting the chambers of the brain, not yet outgrown, not yet cleared away.
How much of the disease, how much of the corruption, how much of the unkindness, how much of the cruelty, how much of all that still remains in us of the animal, might have been outgrown, sloughed off, put underneath our feet!
And yet modern and magnificent are those utterances of the old Hebrew prophet, who had so completely outgrown the common customs even of his time, when he represents God as saying that he is weary of all these external offerings.
I said, you remember, when touching upon government as an illustration of the working of the law of evolution, that governmental forms were being outgrown just as fast as the world was becoming civilized.
Indeed, professed to have outgrown nationalism, and to stand for political and cultural world unity.