1 to lose interest in an idea or activity as you get older: --
He eventually outgrew his adolescent interest in war and guns.
3 if a company or organization outgrows its buildings or offices, it becomes too big for them: --
4 to need something that is bigger, more modern, etc. than what you have or use at the present time, for example, because you have become more successful, skilled, etc. than you were previously: --
5 to become more successful or important than another person or company that is involved in the same activity or industry as you are: --
While we have attempted to oversize slightly the conduit at the time of surgery, all the grafts eventually will be outgrown.
They propose that these individuals performed an essential function in ancestral groups, splitting populations as they outgrew resources.
On the right it engendered levels of nationalist engagement and forms of agitation which far outgrew the cosy informalities of conventional conservative politics.
Either the child outgrows mild problems or these become worse.
Since then, livestock populations have substantially outgrown the capacity of commons for meeting grazing requirements.
Such objections will really not do, and by this stage in the book we ought to have outgrown the belief that they might.
He outgrew his shyness, but the insecurity and a deep unhappiness remained.
Unfortunately, years of inflation, pay curbs and good intentions had taken their toll; and social security payments were outgrowing wages.