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US
/ˌaʊtˈɡɹoʊ/
]
[ UK /aʊtɡɹˈəʊ/ ]
[ UK /aʊtɡɹˈəʊ/ ]
VERB
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grow too large or too mature for
I have outgrown these clothes
She outgrew her childish habits - grow faster than
How To Use outgrow In A Sentence
- Sometimes problems don't require a solution to solve them; instead they require maturity to outgrow them. Steve Maraboli
- L1-CAM, together with other members of the L1 subfamily, is critical for several early development processes like axon outgrowth, fasciculation, neuronal migration and survival PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- Not that I've outgrown New York, were that even possible, but in idle moments I have found myself combing property ads for old watermills and converted stables.
- Long sympathetic neurons and sensory neurons, with particular reference to those of the dorsomedial quadrant of spinal ganglia in chick embryo [12], provided a most valuable system for demonstrating the three main activities of NGF, i.e., 1) its vital trophic role during the early developmental stages, 2) its property of enhancing differentiative processes such as neurite outgrowth, and 3) of guiding the growing or regenerating neurites along its own concentration gradient. [ Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later
- Well, then, seriously, melodrama was the correct ticket and all that in 1840, but we've outgrown it; it's devilish demode to chuck things in people's faces. Lady Baltimore
- The balayage technique provides ultimate control over color application and allows for less outgrowth and more contrast in the hair.
- The Romantic conception of the self was an outgrowth of Kant's critique of associationism.
- No work is predetermined; every work begins somewhere with a motif and outgrows its organ to become an organism.
- England's Regency style was a natural outgrowth of the neoclassical style that prevailed in eighteenth-century Europe.
- And we have to raise more funds as we have recently moved to our current premises, having outgrown our two rooms in Vestry Hall.