Outgrow
verb
To grow bigger or faster than something or someone.
The plant has outgrown its pot.
Often appears as...
- outgrow a habit
- outgrow a size
verb
To stop doing or enjoying something because you have grown older or matured.
He has outgrown his interest in cartoons.
Often appears as...
- outgrow a hobby
- outgrow a passion
verb
To grow bigger or faster than something or someone.
The plant has outgrown its pot.
Often appears as...
- outgrow a habit
- outgrow a size
verb
To stop doing or enjoying something because you have grown older or matured.
He has outgrown his interest in cartoons.
Often appears as...
- outgrow a hobby
- outgrow a passion
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Literal Growth
Used to describe physical growth, such as becoming too big for clothes or spaces.
She quickly outgrew her school uniform.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Capacity
Implies something is no longer sufficient to accommodate growth, often forcing a change.
The startup outgrew its office space.
Pro Tip 3/3Eclipse in Growth
Can suggest surpassing another in development, like in sibling or peer comparisons.
The younger athlete outgrew his older rivals in skill.
Pro Tip 1/3Literal Growth
Used to describe physical growth, such as becoming too big for clothes or spaces.
She quickly outgrew her school uniform.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Capacity
Implies something is no longer sufficient to accommodate growth, often forcing a change.
The startup outgrew its office space.
Pro Tip 3/3Eclipse in Growth
Can suggest surpassing another in development, like in sibling or peer comparisons.
The younger athlete outgrew his older rivals in skill.
Pro Tip 1/3Literal Growth
Used to describe physical growth, such as becoming too big for clothes or spaces.
She quickly outgrew her school uniform.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Capacity
Implies something is no longer sufficient to accommodate growth, often forcing a change.
The startup outgrew its office space.
Pro Tip 3/3Eclipse in Growth
Can suggest surpassing another in development, like in sibling or peer comparisons.
The younger athlete outgrew his older rivals in skill.
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Neil Gershenfeld: The...
It was there because they wanted to find animals in the mountains but it outgrew it, so they built this extraordinary village for the lab. This isn't a university; it's not a company. It's essentially a village for invention; it's a village for the outliers in society, and those have been growing up around these Fab Labs all around the world.
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14 Tips On How To Have A...
really important to think about the fact that they grow so so fast and you don't want to get from something that's already outgrown or will be outgrown after just a few airs so I definitely recommend sizing up if you're going to get them close so my advice would be to recycle you know newspapers and things
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800-pound Best Friend PIPE...
throughout my life I've been called the animal magnet because animals always seem to fly me but with Brutus well seems like we pick one another sort of like friends on the playground and we've been going strong ever since when Brutus outgrew the house we built him a sanctuary and started attracting
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Saving Manatees: What It...
looking boat go by my grandma's land and it said man to research and i became curious and we started asking questions and my cousins and i would we start playing on anti-rescue on the lawn and we fight to see who get to drive the boat or who gets to be the doctor but my my interest had outgrown my
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Brutal Gameplay PIPE When...
had his gladiators fight in silver armor but he knew it was worth it for the support that he would win the arena was the place where politics met to show business so as the games outgrew the funeral tradition they required dedicated venues
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Making wildlife a part...
lasting benefits my personal love affair with wildlife started in Chicago of all places I grew up in a woody suburb where foxes and raccoons and deer would fascinate my sister and I every day and I never outgrew that it actually got to
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A video game to cope...
who had fought so bravely, was done fighting and could rest now, forever. Fortunately, I never did have to finish that bedtime story. My children outgrew it. Joel responded better than anyone expected to palliative treatment,
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What makes a hero? -...
Return After all that adventure, the hero returns to his ordinary world. New Life This quest has changed the hero; he has outgrown his old life. Resolution All the tangled plot lines get straightened out.
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Our dangerous obsession...
of impossible perfection, then we will raise them in a society that has outgrown that very same delusion. But most of all, if we want our young people to enjoy mental, emotional and psychological health,
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An AI smartwatch that...
Febrile seizures are seizures that occur when you also have a fever, and the doctor said, "Don't worry too much. Kids usually outgrow these."
Video examples
Neil Gershenfeld: The...
It was there because they wanted to find animals in the mountains but it outgrew it, so they built this extraordinary village for the lab. This isn't a university; it's not a company. It's essentially a village for invention; it's a village for the outliers in society, and those have been growing up around these Fab Labs all around the world.
Video examples
14 Tips On How To Have A...
really important to think about the fact that they grow so so fast and you don't want to get from something that's already outgrown or will be outgrown after just a few airs so I definitely recommend sizing up if you're going to get them close so my advice would be to recycle you know newspapers and things
Video examples
800-pound Best Friend PIPE...
throughout my life I've been called the animal magnet because animals always seem to fly me but with Brutus well seems like we pick one another sort of like friends on the playground and we've been going strong ever since when Brutus outgrew the house we built him a sanctuary and started attracting
Video examples
Saving Manatees: What It...
looking boat go by my grandma's land and it said man to research and i became curious and we started asking questions and my cousins and i would we start playing on anti-rescue on the lawn and we fight to see who get to drive the boat or who gets to be the doctor but my my interest had outgrown my
Video examples
Brutal Gameplay PIPE When...
had his gladiators fight in silver armor but he knew it was worth it for the support that he would win the arena was the place where politics met to show business so as the games outgrew the funeral tradition they required dedicated venues
Video examples
Making wildlife a part...
lasting benefits my personal love affair with wildlife started in Chicago of all places I grew up in a woody suburb where foxes and raccoons and deer would fascinate my sister and I every day and I never outgrew that it actually got to
Video examples
A video game to cope...
who had fought so bravely, was done fighting and could rest now, forever. Fortunately, I never did have to finish that bedtime story. My children outgrew it. Joel responded better than anyone expected to palliative treatment,
Video examples
What makes a hero? -...
Return After all that adventure, the hero returns to his ordinary world. New Life This quest has changed the hero; he has outgrown his old life. Resolution All the tangled plot lines get straightened out.
Video examples
Our dangerous obsession...
of impossible perfection, then we will raise them in a society that has outgrown that very same delusion. But most of all, if we want our young people to enjoy mental, emotional and psychological health,
Video examples
An AI smartwatch that...
Febrile seizures are seizures that occur when you also have a fever, and the doctor said, "Don't worry too much. Kids usually outgrow these."
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
George Saunders
American Writer
There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him - or he starts to see it having a life of its own that doesn't have anything to do with his ego or his desire to 'be a good writer.
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Dee Rees
American Director
With friendship, it's hard sometimes - you don't outgrow your friends, but you do question how people are friends to you in different ways and how it's okay to cultivate other relationships outside of that.
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Clive Sinclair
British Author
I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.
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Norman Cousins
American Author
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
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Lucy Larcom
American Poet
Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.
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Theodore Roosevelt
American President
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
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Henry George
American Economist
Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
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James Russell Lowell
American Poet
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
American Writer
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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Rhea Ripley
Australian Wrestler
I don't think I can ever outgrow NXT.
Quote examples
George Saunders
American Writer
There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him - or he starts to see it having a life of its own that doesn't have anything to do with his ego or his desire to 'be a good writer.
Quote examples
Dee Rees
American Director
With friendship, it's hard sometimes - you don't outgrow your friends, but you do question how people are friends to you in different ways and how it's okay to cultivate other relationships outside of that.
Quote examples
Clive Sinclair
British Author
I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.
Quote examples
Norman Cousins
American Author
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
Quote examples
Lucy Larcom
American Poet
Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.
Quote examples
Theodore Roosevelt
American President
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Quote examples
Henry George
American Economist
Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
Quote examples
James Russell Lowell
American Poet
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
Quote examples
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
American Writer
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
Quote examples
Rhea Ripley
Australian Wrestler
I don't think I can ever outgrow NXT.
Example 1 of 10
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