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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According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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