Definition of Outgrown

1. Verb. (past participle of outgrow) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Outgrown

1. outgrow [v] - See also: outgrow

Lexicographical Neighbors of Outgrown

outgrew
outgrin
outgrinned
outgrinning
outgrins
outgross
outgrossed
outgrosses
outgrossing
outground
outgrounds
outgroup
outgroups
outgrow
outgrowing
outgrown (current term)
outgrows
outgrowth
outgrowths
outguard
outguards
outguess
outguessed
outguesses
outguessing
outguide
outguided
outguides
outguiding
outgun

Literary usage of Outgrown

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Industrial Revolution: Being the Parts Entitled Parliamentary Colbertism by William Cunningham (1908)
"... AD1689 —1776. but the country had outgrown them, and Pitt was well advised in discarding them and reverting to the Tory tradition, as to the benefit of ..."

2. Half-hours with the Best American Authors by Charles Morris (1886)
"outgrown. Nay, you wrong her, my friend ; she's not fickle ; her love she has simply outgrown: One can read the whole matter, translating her heart by the ..."

3. Poetry of America: Selections from One Hundred American Poets from 1776 to 1876 by William James Linton (1878)
"Of a beautiful city that lies afar; And there, sometime, I shall drop the mask, And be shapely and fair as others are! outgrown. NAY, you wrong her, ..."

4. The Development of Freedom of the Press in Massachusetts by Clyde Augustus Duniway (1906)
"freedom by requiring it to have a " customary " license from the secretary of the province; but, the press having outgrown its swaddling clothes, ..."

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