outgrow
/ˌɑʊtˈɡɹoʊ/ verb B2- To become too big in size or too mature in age or outlook to continue to want, need, use, experience, or accept some object, practice, condition, belief, etc. · Poorer children often have to wear whatever an older sibling has outgrown.· I used to have allergies but I outgrew all of them.
- To grow faster or larger than. · The best adapted plant varieties tend to outgrow those less adapted.
He/she/it outgrows · Past outgrew · Past participle outgrown · -ing form outgrowing
Verb forms
- Base form
- outgrow
- He/she/it
- outgrows
- Past
- outgrew
- Past participle
- outgrown
- -ing form
- outgrowing
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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