outwear
Americanverb (used with object)
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outwears,
present (3rd person singular)
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outwore,
past
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outworn,
past participle
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outwearing
present participle
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to wear or last longer than; outlast.
a well-made product that outwears its competition.
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to exhaust in strength or endurance.
The daily toil had soon outworn him.
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to outlive or outgrow.
Perhaps he will outwear those eccentricities.
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to wear out; destroy by wearing.
A child outwears clothes quickly.
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to pass (time).
trying to outwear the hours by reading.
verb
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to use up or destroy by wearing
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to last or wear longer than
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to outlive, outgrow, or develop beyond
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to deplete or exhaust in strength, determination, etc
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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outwearsimple
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outwearssimple
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have outwornperfect
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has outwornperfect
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am outwearingprogressive
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are outwearingprogressive
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is outwearingprogressive
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have been outwearingperfect progressive
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has been outwearingperfect progressive
Past
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outworesimple
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had outwornperfect
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was outwearingprogressive
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were outwearingprogressive
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had been outwearingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of outwear
Example Sentences
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It was a carnival of outwear that could only be matched by typing “Rococo” into the Amazon search bar.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
The luxury outwear maker will hold an investor presentation on Thursday, its first since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and the acquisition of streetwear brand Stone Island in 2020.
From Reuters ● May 4, 2022
Meanwhile, men’s pants and shorts rose 11.2 percent from a year ago, while suits, sport coats and outwear prices climbed 9.3 percent.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2022
Notably, this is the second time in recent months that Pelosi’s outwear has made fashion headlines.
From Fox News ● Jun. 14, 2019
The kind manufactured for hotels and restaurants and of sufficient capacity, is more expensive, but will outwear two outfits of the cheaper type and is really more economical in the long run.
From Camping For Boys by Henry William Gibson
For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest.
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The first cost is greater, but it outwears muslin or linen.
From Textiles and Clothing by Kate Heintz Watson
Kiss Delia's hand for her sweet prophet's sake, Whose not affected but well couchèd tears Have power, have worth, a marble mind to shake, Whose fame no iron-age or time outwears.
From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Martha Foote Crow
"An observant eye is better than a yearning ear, and patience outwears curiosity!"
From Caves of Terror by Talbot Mundy
"Love is the greatest Amulet that makes this world a garden: and 'Hope comes to all' outwears the accidents of life; and reaches with tremulous hands beyond the grave and Death."
From The Great Amulet by Maud Diver
It outwore the stoutest oak, the toughest elm.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
Forgive me, mother, if my whims outwore Your patient heart.
From The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman by Fay Inchfawn
But his rival, the Briton, had qualities which outwore him, and the patriarchal and stable methods of the Hudson's Bay Company prevailed in the end.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Claude Glennon Bryan
They call the days the Golden Days that 'neath that king outwore, Amid such happiness of peace o'er men-folk did he reign.
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by William Morris
For, we never got over it; the threadbare Orrery outwore our mutual tenderness; the man with the wand was too much for the boy with the bow.
From The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens
Could I remount the river of my years To the first fountain of our smiles and tears I would not trace again its stream of hours Between its outworn banks of withered flowers.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2021
That “hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn,” as science fiction author Wilson Tucker memorably put it when he coined the term in 1941.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2021
His theatrical, packed-to-the-gills exhibition at the Frye Art Museum aims to supplant the outworn heroes and cultural assumptions of the Western canon with new heroes, histories and paradigms.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2018
Instead he falls back on older ones, long outworn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2017
Gradually the plant engineer removed the tubing to use to patch other outworn equipment at the Hediondo.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
I had asked her to go home with me, and she had refused because she is so afraid of outwearing her welcome.
From Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College by Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
Again, it was her heart "outwearing its sheath," as she put it.
From Elsie Marley, Honey by Joslyn Gray
But neither at the candle-lighted breakfast, nor later, when Ballard asked him if he were fit for a leisurely ride to the southern watershed for the day's outwearing, did he speak of young Carson's desertion.
From The King of Arcadia by Francis Lynde
That gave father-strength for bearing Famine-need and sword, Honor death itself outwearing, And it gave accord.
From Poems and Songs by Arthur Hubbell Palmer
Lo! on pinions bright, The Love-god comes, a yellow cincture bearing, To bind thee ever to thy dear delight, In nuptial knot, all other knots outwearing.
From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Theodore C. Williams
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