Meaning of "outgrow" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF OUTGROW

outgrow  [ˌaʊtˈɡrəʊ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OUTGROW

Outgrow is a verb.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb outgrow in English.

WHAT DOES OUTGROW MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Outgrow

Outgrow is BoA's 4th original Japanese album. The album features the singles Do the Motion, Make a Secret, Dakishimeru, and Everlasting. The album also features the track "First Snow" from BoA's special digital single, Merry Christmas from BoA. Several of the album's songs have either been written or composed by BoA herself. The album comes in two editions, a limited CD+DVD edition, and a regular CD-only edition. Both editions come with different covers, and the CD features 13 tracks, including a bonus track of "First Snow" alongside 5 new songs. The limited edition CD+DVD version includes a DVD with 5 video clips.

Definition of outgrow in the English dictionary

The first definition of outgrow in the dictionary is to grow too large for. Other definition of outgrow is to lose in the course of development or time. Outgrow is also to grow larger or faster than.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO OUTGROW

PRESENT

Present

I outgrow

you outgrow

he/she/it outgrows

we outgrow

you outgrow

they outgrow

Present continuous

I am outgrowing

you are outgrowing

he/she/it is outgrowing

we are outgrowing

you are outgrowing

they are outgrowing

Present perfect

I have outgrown

you have outgrown

he/she/it has outgrown

we have outgrown

you have outgrown

they have outgrown

Present perfect continuous

I have been outgrowing

you have been outgrowing

he/she/it has been outgrowing

we have been outgrowing

you have been outgrowing

they have been outgrowing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I outgrew

you outgrew

he/she/it outgrew

we outgrew

you outgrew

they outgrew

Past continuous

I was outgrowing

you were outgrowing

he/she/it was outgrowing

we were outgrowing

you were outgrowing

they were outgrowing

Past perfect

I had outgrown

you had outgrown

he/she/it had outgrown

we had outgrown

you had outgrown

they had outgrown

Past perfect continuous

I had been outgrowing

you had been outgrowing

he/she/it had been outgrowing

we had been outgrowing

you had been outgrowing

they had been outgrowing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will outgrow

you will outgrow

he/she/it will outgrow

we will outgrow

you will outgrow

they will outgrow

Future continuous

I will be outgrowing

you will be outgrowing

he/she/it will be outgrowing

we will be outgrowing

you will be outgrowing

they will be outgrowing

Future perfect

I will have outgrown

you will have outgrown

he/she/it will have outgrown

we will have outgrown

you will have outgrown

they will have outgrown

Future perfect continuous

I will have been outgrowing

you will have been outgrowing

he/she/it will have been outgrowing

we will have been outgrowing

you will have been outgrowing

they will have been outgrowing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would outgrow

you would outgrow

he/she/it would outgrow

we would outgrow

you would outgrow

they would outgrow

Conditional continuous

I would be outgrowing

you would be outgrowing

he/she/it would be outgrowing

we would be outgrowing

you would be outgrowing

they would be outgrowing

Conditional perfect

I would have outgrow

you would have outgrow

he/she/it would have outgrow

we would have outgrow

you would have outgrow

they would have outgrow

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been outgrowing

you would have been outgrowing

he/she/it would have been outgrowing

we would have been outgrowing

you would have been outgrowing

they would have been outgrowing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you outgrow
we let´s outgrow
you outgrow

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to outgrow

Past participle

outgrown

Present Participle

outgrowing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

TRANSLATION OF OUTGROW

Find out the translation of outgrow to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of outgrow from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «outgrow» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 长大而穿不下 >
• Translator English - Spanish: quedarle pequeño a alguien
• English: outgrow
• Translator English - Hindi: विकसित हो जाना
• Translator English - Arabic: تتفوق
• Translator English - Russian: перерастают
• Translator English - Portuguese: crescer
• Translator English - Bengali: বৃদ্ধিতে অতিক্রম করা
• Translator English - French: devenir trop grand pour
• Translator English - Malay: Jauh
• Translator English - German: herauswachsen aus
• Translator English - Japanese: 大きくなって着られなくなる
• Translator English - Korean: 자라서 ∼을 못 입게 되다
• Translator English - Javanese: Outgrow
• Translator English - Vietnamese: cao hơn
• Translator English - Tamil: outgrow
• Translator English - Marathi: मोठे होणे
• Translator English - Turkish: büyümek
• Translator English - Italian: diventare troppo grande per
• Translator English - Polish: przerastać
• Translator English - Ukrainian: переростають
• Translator English - Romanian: deveni prea mare
• Translator English - Greek: ξεπεράσει
• Translator English - Afrikaans: ontgroei
• Translator English - Swedish: växa ur
• Translator English - Norwegian: vokse

10 QUOTES WITH «OUTGROW»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word outgrow.

1

Norman Cousins

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.

2

Henry George

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

3

Seth Godin

We're not going to outgrow our need for information.

4

Leroy Hood

The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.

5

Lucy Larcom

Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.

6

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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.

7

Robert Lowell

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

8

Feisal Abdul Rauf

Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.

9

Gretchen Rubin

I'd always vaguely expected to outgrow my limitations. One day, I'd stop twisting my hair, and wearing running shoes all the time, and eating exactly the same food every day. I'd remember my friends' birthdays, I'd learn Photoshop, I wouldn't let my daughter watch TV during breakfast. I'd read Shakespeare.

10

Ryunosuke Satoro

Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OUTGROW»

Discover the use of outgrow in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to outgrow and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Mad Money: When Markets Outgrow Governments

One of the founders of the field of international political economy addresses the reasons for the volatility of global markets in recent years

Susan Strange, 1998

Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels

Kenzaburō Ōe was ten when American soldiers entered his mountain village during World War II, and his writing "reveals the tension and ambiguity forged by the collapse of the values of his childhood on the one hand and the confrontation ...

Kenzaburo Oe, Kenzaburō Ōe, 1977

Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels: the Day ...

The title piece in this collection reveals its importance to Ôe’s identity as a writer.

Kenzaburo Oé, 2011

Outgrow Middle Management: Accelerate Your Climb to the Top

MANAGEMENT. “Outgrow Middle Management provides a wonderful pathway to stepping UP in your leadership, and in your career. If you want to go far and grow fast, then apply what you learn from this new book.” —Ron Kaufman, New York ...

Dave Osh, 2014

You Don't Outgrow It: Living With Learning Disabilities

Written for adults with learning disabilities, this book is based on the premise that learning disabilities are not outgrown and thus adults need to learn practical strategies and coping mechanisms.

Marnell L. Hayes, 1993

Food Allergies For Dummies

Well, that assumption holds some truth — as a general rule, multiple food allergies may slightly reduce your ability to outgrow any food allergy, but an inability to outgrow one food allergy doesn't affect your ability to outgrow a different food ...

Robert A. Wood, MD, 2011

The Problem of problems, and its various solutions, or, ...

religion of either of these two characters, man could and would outgrow, in his progress. Man has outgrown such systems of law in religion, wherever he has progressed and advanced in civilization and knowledge; and he will always outgrow ...

Clark Braden, 1879

Will the World Outgrow Christianity, and Other ...

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Kerr, 2010

The Renewal of Generosity: Illness, Medicine, and How to Live

Bakhtin understands the human moral essence as people's acute “sense of their own inner unfinalizability, their capacity to outgrow, as it were, from within and to render untrue any externalization and finalizing definition of them” (59).

Arthur W. Frank, 2009

Honesty Sells: How To Make More Money and Increase Business ...

Treating Prospecting as Something You'll Outgrow Eventually 39 Sadly, it is a human characteristic that people tend to remember and talk more often about the negative experiences they've had than they do about the positive ones. Consider  ...

Steven Gaffney, Colleen Francis, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OUTGROW»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term outgrow is used in the context of the following news items.

Baumgartner Vaughan: New game, new shoes

Parents spend that much on shoes that kids are going to outgrow? I looked around the bleachers at the dads' shoes. Oh. I see. Now, for T-ball, ... «Durham Herald Sun, Jul 15»

Jo Rivera's pregnant gf Vetzabe Vee Torres baby bump photo

... enough to wear it (3-6 months, depending on where you live) you'll outgrow it. It'll go from too loose to breaking at the seams as you grow. «Starcasm.net, Jul 15»

A tap house at the schoolhouse?

“It would take us a long time to outgrow this space.” At the Commission meeting, Blevens said later he would seek a C-2 liquor license to allow ... «Alton Telegraph, Jul 15»

Identity crisis of a stay-home mum

I've willingly hit the pause button as I wait for them to outgrow their need for my constant presence. Yet I worry that when they finally do, I can no ... «The Straits Times, Jul 15»

Real Deals: Two new projects could reshape Durham skyline

The success of the American Underground entrepreneurial spaces means Durham today has a stable of startups, some of which may outgrow ... «News & Observer, Jul 15»

Craft distillery JEM Brewing Co. takes advantage of extra space in …

“I hope we don't outgrow this place too fast, though. Moving a business is a lot worse than moving your house, I know that much.” CAITLYN ... «Denton Record Chronicle, Jul 15»

Third Annual COUFest Rocks Downtown Tulsa

“We're not trying to outgrow ourselves,” Philip Kaiser said. “We're still young. What we want is quality over quantity. We want a good experience ... «News On 6, Jul 15»

A Night of Laughter

We're about to outgrow it, so we are putting on different projects throughout the year to help raise funds because our membership is not that big ... «MyHighPlains, Jul 15»

DE Recruiting: What's Next?

The question is will he be able to stay at linebacker or will he quickly outgrow that position and slide down into a three-point stance. «Irish Illustrated, Jul 15»

Pedorthist shares foot type identification algorithm for adolescents …

Many families are hesitant to purchase custom orthoses for adolescents and preteens who can outgrow the product; in addition, Nole said, ... «Healio, Jul 15»