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What does outgrow mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word outgrow? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To become too big in size or too mature in age or outlook to continue to want, need, use, experience, or accept some object, practice, condition, belief, etc.
  2. (transitive) To grow faster or larger than.
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Unlike allergies to other foods like milk and eggs, children generally don't outgrow allergies to peanuts or nuts.
There is simply no money in the till to fund rickety new programs that will quickly outgrow their ostensible resource base.
The speed at which kids outgrow ski boots, skates and, yes, bikes is alarming.
The company hopes that its international business will eventually outgrow its domestic operation.
Once the kids outgrow the sandbox, its location will be ideal for a shade tree and flower bed.
She's got Kevin's sense of what's out there, however, and it's inevitable that she's going to outgrow Jerry's dime-store bag of tricks.

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