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be outgrown
verb
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.
Exact(19)
But these will never be outgrown.
For clothes that will be outgrown in, ooh, six months.
You rarely succeed, yet the urge for completeness is a kind of love, doomed to be outgrown but not forgotten.
So this was an example of that: my "original conception" (i.e., the dream and its associated meaning) had to be outgrown — or built upon.
Back then, too, it suffered from the "historical illusion" that it was "something to be outgrown, a juvenile and undeveloped form".
In fact, from childhood on my idea is that Pennsylvania is a nursery place, to be outgrown and left behind as quickly as possible.
Similar(41)
Sometimes metaphors are outgrown.
"He's outgrown this playpen.
They are outgrown or become stale.
Some conflicts are outgrown rather than resolved.
"He's outgrown this stroller," Mr. Beecham said.
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