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Outgrown

Outgrow \Out*grow"\, v. t. [imp. Outgrew; p. p. Outgrown; p. pr. & vb. n. Outgrowing.]

  1. To surpass in growing; to grow more than.
    --Shak.

  2. To grow out of or away from; to grow too large, or too aged, for; as, to outgrow clothing; to outgrow usefulness; to outgrow an infirmity.

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outgrown

vb. (past participle of outgrow English)

WordNet
outgrow
  1. v. grow too large or too mature for; "I have outgrown these clothes"

  2. grow too large for [syn: overgrow]

  3. grow faster than

  4. [also: outgrown, outgrew]

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Usage examples of "outgrown".

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.

This latter-day civilization, however, had wholly outgrown nationalism, and had spent many centuries of peace in consolidating itself.

And one had thought that she had outgrown what dear Rowland had called the odd kick in her gallop!

And she had outgrown any usefulness she might once have had when Sybil had won a shrill argument with Lord and Lady Barrie a few months before and been officially released from the schoolroom.

Kraft looked up from his reading above the dead center of the Pacific, realizing, suddenly, that he had outgrown fiction.

By 1839 Perkins had outgrown its original quarters on Pearl Street, which had been given to it by Colonel Thomas H.