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Definition of Outgrow
1. Verb. Grow too large or too mature for. "She outgrew her childish habits"
2. Verb. Grow faster than. "Sam cannot outgrow Sue "
Definition of Outgrow
1. v. t. To surpass in growing; to grow more than.
Definition of Outgrow
1. Verb. (transitive) To become too big or mature for some purpose. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To leave some object, habit, belief ... behind, no longer need or use it, as one grows. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To grow faster or taller than something or someone else. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outgrow
1. to grow too large for [v -GREW, -GROWN, -GROWING, -GROWS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outgrow
Literary usage of Outgrow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ten Great Religions by James Freeman Clarke (1883)
"Will the world outgrow the teaching of Jesus. Future prospects. There remains
then to be considered only the possibility that the world will outgrow the ..."
2. The Bible in the World's Education by Henry White Warren (1892)
"X. THE BIBLE: WILL MEN outgrow IT? WILL men outgrow this word of revelation and
require another ? This written word is only a part of the revelation. ..."
3. Faith and Morals: I.--Faith as Ritschl Defined It. II.--The Moral Law as by Wilhelm Herrmann (1904)
"But when they outgrow this stage, they receive the divine impulse to put away
childish things. If they obey God, they put away, if not the whole of ..."
4. Aphorisms and Reflections by John Lancaster Spalding (1901)
"... a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion
men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them. ..."
5. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel, Johann Gottfried Flügel (1861)
"(aux. fein) I. to be grown over; 2. to grow together, to entwine one's self,
coalesce ; 3. to grow in a deformed manner; II. a. to outgrow ; III. re/?, ..."
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