Outgrown
['aʊt'gro]
Definition
(p. p.) of Outgrow
Editor: Meredith
Examples
- If any thing could increase her delight, it was perceiving that the baby would soon have outgrown its first set of caps. Jane Austen. Emma.
- And thus matters went on until the early part of the present decade, when the factory facilities were becoming so rapidly outgrown as to render radical changes necessary. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The myth is not one of the outgrown crudities of our pagan ancestors. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Supposed to be incarcerated there, because the time had rather outgrown the strong cells and the blind alley. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
Editor: Meredith