outgrow
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[edit]outgrow (third-person singular simple present outgrows, present participle outgrowing, simple past outgrew, past participle outgrown)
- (transitive, often figurative) To become too big in size or too mature in age or outlook to continue to want, need, use, experience, or accept some object, practice, condition, belief, etc.
- Synonym: grow out of
- Poorer children often have to wear whatever an older sibling has outgrown.
- I used to have allergies but I outgrew all of them.
- Some people blame God for their troubles, but one must outgrow such notions.
- 1941 January, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 48:
- […] Most persons are collectors at some periods of their lives. Some outgrow the habit; with others it becomes a mania; and with still others it is a lasting habit intelligently planned as one aspect of a study of a particular subject.
- (transitive) To grow faster or larger than.
- The best adapted plant varieties tend to outgrow those less adapted.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]to become too big or mature for some object, practice, condition, belief, etc
to grow faster or taller than someone or something else
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References
[edit]- “outgrow”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “outgrow”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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