outgrow
verb (used with object)
to grow too large for.
will have outgrown
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future perfectof outgrow.future perfect
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
Example Sentences
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The brooding-house should be filled with chicks in November and December, which they will have outgrown by February, when the building will be required for ducklings.
From Natural and Artificial Duck Culture by James Rankin
I am so thankful Fred goes away to-morrow for a year! and I do hope by that time he will have outgrown that wretched, commonplace youth.
From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Amanda Minnie Douglas
In good time, if the boy is kept growing, he will have outgrown his stone-bruises, his chapped hands, his freckles, his warts, and his physical and spiritual awkwardness.
From Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis B. Pearson
