outgrown
/aʊtˈɡɹoʊn/
outgrown is the past participle of outgrow.
Meaning of outgrow
Verb
outgrow (third-person singular simple present outgrows, present participle outgrowing, simple past outgrew, past participle outgrown)
- 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.
- Poorer children often have to wear whatever an older sibling has outgrown.
- Synonyms:
- grow out of
- To grow faster or larger than.
- The best adapted plant varieties tend to outgrow those less adapted.
Words formed from outgrown
Words that rhyme with outgrown
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- moan
- throne
- atone
- clone
- crone
- prone
- depone
- hone
- loan
- cologne
- condone
- disenthrone
- disown
- eau de cologne
- enthrone
- groan
- intone
- roan
- Sloan
- Sloane
- thrown
- unknown
- bemoan
- cobblestone
- Copplestone
- grown
- joan
- known
- none
- overgrown
- pension
- phone
- postpone
- redstone
- sone
- Stallone
- answer phone
- arthron
- beknown
- cauterizing stone
- compone
- crosne
- crown
- cuboidal bone
- cuttlefish bone
- Ediphone
- enzone
- flown
Questions about outgrown
- What is outgrown the past participle of?
- Outgrown is the past participle of outgrow.
- How do you pronounce outgrown?
- Outgrown is pronounced /aʊtˈɡɹoʊn/.
Words near outgrown in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: outgrown (page history and authors); outgrow (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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