grow out of

grow out of
phrasal verb [transitive]
Word forms "grow out of":
present tense I/you/we/they grow out of he/she/it grows out of present participle growing out of past tense grew out of past participle grown out of
1) grow out of something if children grow out of clothes, they grow bigger and the clothes become too small for them
2) grow out of something if someone grows out of a habit, they stop doing it, because they are older or wiser

They thought I would grow out of my fear of spiders.

3) grow out of something to develop from something, or to exist as a result of it

Other issues grew out of the policy review.

The poems grew out of her disturbed imagination.


English dictionary. 2014.

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