outwear
verb (used with object)
to wear or last longer than; outlast.
have outworn
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present perfectof outwear.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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He ventured that the old shibboleths of "big government" and the Communist conspiracy have outworn their meaning.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tennyson is fresh also in scenic scenery; he is fresh with the things that others have outworn; mountains, desert islands, castles, elves, what you will that is conventional.
From Hearts of Controversy by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
Nay, 'tis simple matter!" says I, whittling away but very conscious of her watchful eyes: "I have outworn many a weary hour carving things with my knife.
From Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol
Tell us, you, who have outworn the common tragedy and passed the narrow way, what lies beyond its gate?
From Beatrice by Henry Rider Haggard
Strange how we use phrases which have outworn their meaning!
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various
