outgrow
To grow and make your clothes too small.
To grow so that a piece of clothing no longer fits because it is too small.
To change so you don’t like or do something anymore.
To develop beyond an interest, habit, or behavior so that you no longer enjoy it or do it.
To become too big for a place or system.
To become too large or successful for a place, organization, or arrangement to accommodate.
To stop having a health problem as you get older.
To stop having a condition, allergy, or problem as you get older.
To become more mature or advanced than someone or something.
To become more mature, skilled, or advanced than someone or something that once matched you.
- Base: outgrow
- 3rd Person Singular: outgrows
- Present Participle: outgrowing
- Past: outgrew
- Past Participle: outgrown
outgrow your britches
1act too important or proud
To become too proud and act superior.
- Ever since he got promoted, he’s been outgrowing his britches.
- Don’t outgrow your britches just because you won one award.
- She’s talented, but sometimes she outgrows her britches in meetings.
- He is outgrowing his britches.
outgrow your usefulness
1become no longer useful
To stop being useful or needed.
- He worried that, after the merger, he might outgrow his usefulness to the company.
- Once the project was finished, the temporary team had outgrown its usefulness.
- The old process has outgrown its usefulness and needs to be replaced.
- This tool has outgrown its usefulness.