outgrew

Verb

The word is derived from outgrow

Meaning

of Outgrow

Examples

I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it. Anne Frank

Thus, little by little, it came about, as so often before, that the Star Maker outgrew his creature. Increasingly he frowned upon the loveliness that he still cherished. Then, seemingly with a conflict of reverence and impatience, he set our cosmos in its place among his other works. Olaf Stapledon

Don't you know everything? God smiled. "No, I outgrew that trick long ago. You can't imagine how boring it was.”. Octavia Butler

I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew. Steven Pinker

I used to have a pony but I outgrew it and I do dream that one day I will live in the country and have lots of horses and be like a proper English lady who goes hunting and everything. Georgia May Jagger

outgrew the media ... The negativity felt like a disease. Billy Connolly

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