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Answer for the clue "Could no longer fit into, as one's childhood clothing ", 7 letters:
outgrew

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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; ...

Usage examples of outgrew.

Seemed like every time we got him some jeans, he outgrew them the next week.

They outgrew it and acquired the ability for a selective shut down, which did the same thing.

It was a year or more before I began work on the remaining two books, which were originally conceived as one but outgrew the conception.

Except that later on, when he outgrew his savage simplicity, if you can call it that, man denied the fact.