- grow out of something
Transitive, Inseparable
Meaning: get too big for
Example: Babies grow out of clothing so quickly! - grow into something
Transitive, Inseparable
Meaning: grow big enough to fit
Example: These pants are too big for him now, but he’ll grow into them soon. - Hand something down
Transitive, Intransitive, Separable
Meaning: give something used to someone
Example: My mom saved some things to hand down to my sisters and I.
When I was a child I never had new clothes because I was the youngest and my mom would wait for my older sisters to grow out of their clothes so that she could hand down the clothes to me and I could grow into them.