Definition of Outgrow

Outgrow

To surpass in growing; to grow more than.

To grow out of or away from; to grow too large, or too aged, for; as, to outgrow clothing; to outgrow usefulness; to outgrow an infirmity.

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Outgrow Quotations

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Theodore Roosevelt

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
James Russell Lowell

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.
Norman Cousins

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.
George Wald

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
Henry George

Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.
Ryunosuke Satoro

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
Robert Lowell

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Outgrow Translations

outgrow in Spanish is rebasar

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