OUTWEAR (outwore, outworn)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected forms: outwore    , outworn   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does outwear mean? 

• OUTWEAR (verb)
  The verb OUTWEAR has 2 senses:

1. last longer than others

2. exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

  Familiarity information: OUTWEAR used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTWEAR (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they outwear    ... he / she / it outwears   
Past simple: outwore   
Past participle: outworn   
-ing form: outwearing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Last longer than others

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

This material outwears all others

Hypernyms (to "outwear" is one way to...):

exceed; outdo; outgo; outmatch; outperform; outstrip; surmount; surpass (be or do something to a greater degree)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

We wore ourselves out on this hike

Hypernyms (to "outwear" is one way to...):

indispose (cause to feel unwell)

Cause:

fatigue; jade; pall; tire; weary (lose interest or become bored with something or somebody)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "outwear"):

beat; exhaust; tucker; tucker out; wash up (wear out completely)

overfatigue; overtire; overweary (tire excessively)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

 Context examples 

While Uranus in Taurus won’t be friendly to Saturn, that only means it’s time to reinvent yourself—old structures that have outworn their usefulness will fall, and you can set up new ones.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

ON this, the first of January of the year 1851, the nineteenth century has reached its midway term, and many of us who shared its youth have already warnings which tell us that it has outworn us.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)