outwear
verb (used with object)
to wear or last longer than; outlast.
outwore
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past tense formof outwear.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
Example Sentences
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Gladsome and gay forget thine every grief * Full often grief the wisest hearts outwore: Thought is but folly in the feeble slave * Shun it and so be saved evermore.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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
Thou sayest my faith has been forfeit, O fair in thy glittering raiment; But I wearied my steed and outwore it, And for what but the love that bare thee?
From The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood
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
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
