Outwear

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Outwear \Out*wear"\, v. t.
     1. To wear out; to consume or destroy by wearing. --Milton.
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     2. To last longer than; to outlast; as, this cloth will
        outwear the other. "If I the night outwear." --Pope.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  outwear
       v 1: last longer than others; "This material outwears all others"
       2: exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress;
          "We wore ourselves out on this hike" [syn: {tire}, {wear
          upon}, {tire out}, {wear}, {weary}, {jade}, {wear out}, {wear
          down}, {fag out}, {fag}, {fatigue}] [ant: {refresh}]
       [also: {outworn}, {outwore}]