OUTWEAR

tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue

(verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; “We wore ourselves out on this hike”

outwear

(verb) last longer than others; “This material outwears all others”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

outwear (third-person singular simple present outwears, present participle outwearing, simple past outwore, past participle outworn)

(transitive) To wear out.

(transitive) To outlast; to survive or outlive longer than.

Anagrams

• wear out, wearout

Source: Wiktionary


Out*wear", v. t.

1. To wear out; to consume or destroy by wearing. Milton.

2. To last longer than; to outlast; as, this cloth will outwear the other. "If I the night outwear." Pope.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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