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
Thank God!" he cried, "I have outworn that mania of searching for prettiness.
From A Comedy of Masks A Novel by Ernest Christopher Dowson
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
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
Little remains to us of those days, and we have outworn their jollity.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds
