outgrow
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verb (used with object)
1.
to grow too large for: to outgrow one's clothes.
2.
to leave behind or lose in the changes incident to development or the passage of time: She outgrew her fear of the dark.
3.
to surpass in growing: watching one child outgrow another.
verb (used without object)
4.
Archaic. to grow out; burst forth; protrude.
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| —vb , -grows, -growing, -grew, -grown | |
| 1. | to grow too large for (clothes, shoes, etc) |
| 2. | to lose (a habit, idea, reputation, etc) in the course of development or time |
| 3. | to grow larger or faster than |
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Example sentences
Some athletes never outgrow their outsized personas, even long after retirement.
But that is precisely what the bishops are being called upon to outgrow.
Steroids often cause muscles to outgrow and injure the tendons and ligaments that attach them to the bone.
Finally, some dreamed, ordinary fans would outgrow their craving for star power.
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