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outgrow的过去式
Outgrow \Out*grow"\, v. t. [imp. {Outgrew}; p. p. {Outgrown}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Outgrowing}.]
1. To surpass in growing; to grow more than. --Shak.
2. 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.
- The heyday lasted until about 1860, when New York outgrew the port and trade shifted to the Hudson River.
- He moved there a few years ago when he outgrew his old studio on Rue Beaubourg opposite the Pompidou centre.
- "The male population outgrew the female population in every age group under age 85," Frederick W. Hollmann of the Census Bureau reported.
- She races in a borrowed uniform that her neighbor's son outgrew.