Definition of "outgrow"

outgrow

/ˌaʊtˈɡɹəʊ/

verb
third-person singular simple present outgrows, present participle outgrowing, simple past outgrew, past participle outgrown
1. (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.
  Quotations
  […] 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.
  1941 January, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 48
  “I think you've outgrown Bonnie,” he said as he drove. […] “Bonnie and I have known each other forever,” I said simply. “Doesn't mean you have to be friends forever.”
  2022, Ling Ma, “G”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2. (transitive) To grow faster or larger than.

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