grow out of sth
— phrasal verb with grow uk/ɡrəʊ/us/ɡroʊ/verb grew, grown
(CLOTHES)
If children grow out of clothes, they become too big to fit into them.
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Becoming bigger
- accrue
- augment
- billow
- bloat
- broaden
- engorged
- enlarge
- enlargement
- expansion
- extend
- extension
- grow
- oak
- regenerate
- scalability
- scalable
- scaleable
- shoot
- stretch
- supersize
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(INTEREST)
If you grow out of an interest or way of behaving, you stop having or doing it as you become older:
Lucas says he wants to join the army when he turns 18, but I hope he'll grow out of the idea.
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Stop having or doing something
- abdicate
- bail out
- bandh
- break with sth
- butt out
- cede
- drop
- fly
- forwent
- ghost
- give (sth) up
- give sb up
- give sth up as a bad job idiom
- give up on sb/sth
- grow
- subjugate
- take a back seat idiom
- throw (sth) up
- throw in the towel idiom 1
- towel
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(IDEA)
If an idea grows out of another one, it develops from it:
The idea for the story grew out of a strange experience I had last year.
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Making progress and advancing
- a step forward idiom
- advance
- advancement
- ahead
- be cooking idiom
- betterment
- develop
- go great guns idiom
- graduate
- grow
- grow into sb/sth
- have come a long way idiom
- headway
- rise
- shape
- speciation
- spread your wings idiom
- steer a course/path idiom
- step
- streak ahead
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