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Definition of Outgrew
1. outgrow [v] - See also: outgrow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outgrew
Literary usage of Outgrew
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Daniel Webster by Samuel Walker McCall (1902)
"He never outgrew the simple loves of his youth. / At Marshfield it was his habit
to rise before daybreak to watch the coming of the dawn. ..."
2. Personal Recollections of Werner Von Siemens by Werner von Siemens (1893)
"When my sister and I outgrew the tuition of grandmother Deichmann — nee von
Scheiter, as she never forgot to sign herself — my father himself undertook our ..."
3. A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People by John Newton Boucher, John Woolf Jordan (1908)
"It soon outgrew those quarters, when land was bought on Second and Try streets,
where the present plant was built. JEREMIAH MURRY GILCHRIST, deceased, ..."
4. White Unto Harvest: A Survey of Lutheran United Mission, the China Mission by Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, Tønnes Ekeland, Evangelical Lutheran Church, Board of Foreign Missions, Albert Anderson, China Mission, Olive Therese Christensen (1919)
"This class was later supplanted by the Bible School for Men. Thus we now have
three schools where before we had one. We soon outgrew our temporary quarters ..."
5. Memorials of the Reverend Joseph Baugher Bittinger, D.D. by Lucy Forney Bittinger (1891)
"vember 3, 1873, in Mr. Way's Bible class room, but they outgrew their quarters
after a few meetings and then occupied Mr. Christy's room. ..."
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