outwear
verb (used with object)
to wear or last longer than; outlast.
outwearing
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present participleof outwear.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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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
Again, it was her heart "outwearing its sheath," as she put it.
From Elsie Marley, Honey by Joslyn Gray
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
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
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
