if children grow out of clothes, they grow bigger and the clothes become too small for them
if someone grows out of a habit, they stop doing it, because they are older or wiser
to develop from something, or to exist as a result of it
Could it all grow out of the past, watered perhaps by a few idle rumours?
Many great towers and spires, made of glittering sweeps of living stone, seemed to grow out of the valley's very rock.
Other issues grew out of the policy review.
The poems grew out of her disturbed imagination.
They thought I would grow out of my fear of spiders.
`Cheer up, Harry, he'll grow out of it,' Gina told me over coffee.
`We're hoping that, living here and being settled, she may start to grow out of it.
grows out of
growing out of
grew out of
grown out of
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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