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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb outgrow has 2 senses
- outgrow(v = verb.change) Array - grow too large or too mature for; "I have outgrown these clothes"; "She outgrew her childish habits" is one way to develop, grow
- outgrow(v = verb.competition) Array - grow faster than; Array is one way to exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surmount, surpass
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot outgrow Sue
CIDE DICTIONARY
outgrow, v. t.
- To surpass in growing; to grow more than. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
outgrow, v.tr. (past -grew; past part. -grown)
1 grow too big for (one's clothes).
2 leave behind (a childish habit, taste, ailment, etc.) as one matures.
3 grow faster or taller than (a person, plant, etc.).
1 grow too big for (one's clothes).
2 leave behind (a childish habit, taste, ailment, etc.) as one matures.
3 grow faster or taller than (a person, plant, etc.).
Idiom
outgrow one's strength become lanky and weak through too rapid growth.
THESAURUS
outgrow
blossom, brew, burgeon, develop, flourish, gather, germinate, grow, grow up, hypertrophy, increase, mature, mushroom, overdevelop, overgrow, overtop, procreate, pullulate, reproduce, shoot up, spring up, sprout, sprout up, thrive, tower, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, vegetate, waxROGET THESAURUS
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Expansion
VB become larger &c (large), expand, widen, enlarge, extend, grow, increase, incrassate, swell, gather, fill out, deploy, take open order, dilate, stretch, distend, spread, mantle, wax, grow up, spring up, bud, bourgeon, shoot, sprout, germinate, put forth, vegetate, pullulate, open, burst forth, gain flesh, gather flesh, outgrow, spread like wildfire, overrun, be larger than, surpass, render larger &c (large), expand, spread, extend, aggrandize, distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate, puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram, exaggerate, fatten.
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