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outgrow

/out-groh/US // ˌaʊtˈgroʊ //UK // (ˌaʊtˈɡrəʊ) //

淘汰,淘汰赛,淘汰掉,遗忘

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    out·grew, out·grown, out·grow·ing.

    • : to grow too large for: to outgrow one's clothes.
    • : to leave behind or lose in the changes incident to development or the passage of time: She outgrew her fear of the dark.
    • : to surpass in growing: watching one child outgrow another.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    out·grew, out·grown, out·grow·ing.

    • : Archaic. to grow out; burst forth; protrude.

Examples

  • In order to achieve these goals, and outgrow old habits, a new method of workplace communication becomes necessary.

  • Comic-Con again is often put in that category of outgrowing our waterfront facility.

  • “As a teenager, I recognized that I hadn’t outgrown it,” Pisarra said.

  • Two decades later, I’m pleased to say that I’ve outgrown such folly.

  • Rather, they feel more like a childhood friend I both love and have outgrown.

  • I would just say, musically, you just outgrow bands philosophically and politically.

  • I like that, with the way things are now in pop culture, you never really outgrow superheroes.

  • On some preconscious level, we never outgrow this expectation or fear about our omnipresent mothers.

  • And the insertion of technology into clothes raises a host of potential problems: what if you outgrow the shirt?

  • True, Jacob has to watch his temper so he doesn't hurt her when he shape-shifts into wolf form, but he'll soon outgrow that phase.

  • America did not outgrow this need, and this benefit, in the later days of Washington and Lincoln.

  • The top thus appears to outgrow the root, and such trees are apt to blow over during wind storms.

  • He belongs to a class who for practical purposes never outgrow mental childhood.

  • Could she be wrong in her belief that, given enough time, Larry would outgrow his infatuation for Maggie?

  • With the absence of all excitement, with entire rest of mind and body, the child would outgrow the evil.