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Outgrow Moderate

Origin: Germanic Old English prefix

Outgrow has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

grow too large or too mature for

"I have outgrown these clothes"

"She outgrew her childish habits"

2

grow faster than

3

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.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
develop surpass

Origin

The word comes from combining the prefix out- with the verb grow. It originally meant to increase in size or development beyond a previous limit.

Rhyming Words
row prow grow arow brow frow crow trow mrow drow shrow scrow serow karow arrow throw strow ingrow narrow garrow
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