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outwear - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'outwear' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Outwear [ v. t.]
- To wear out; to consume or destroy by wearing.
- To last longer than; to outlast; as, this cloth will outwear the other.

Meaning of 'outwear' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . outwear [ v]
Meaning (1):
- last longer than others
Example in sentence:
  • This material outwears all others
Meaning (2):
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
Example in sentence:
  • We wore ourselves out on this hike