outwear Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb last longer than others
    • This material outwears all others
  2. verb exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
    wear out; tire; wear down; jade; fag out; weary; fatigue; wear; tire out; fag; wear upon.
    • We wore ourselves out on this hike

WordNet


Out*wear" transitive verb
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913