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outgrowing

outgrowing

English

Verb

outgrowing

  1. present participle of outgrow

Noun

outgrowing (plural outgrowings)

  1. That which grows outward.
    • 1857, Carl August Wildenhahn, The Blind Girl of Wittenberg (page 226)
      That which but yesterday seemed laudable and proper in my past life, I to-day feel to have been nothing but the outgrowings of a proud heart and perverted mind.