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Webster 1913 Edition

Outwear

Out-wear′

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To wear out; to consume or destroy by wearing.
Milton.
2.
To last longer than; to outlast;
as, this cloth will
outwear
the other
.
“If I the night outwear.”
Pope.

Webster 1828 Edition

Outwear

OUTWEAR

, v.t.
1.
To wear out. [Not used.]
2.
To pass tediously to the end.
By the stream, if I the night outwear -
3.
To last longer than something else. [This is the common signification.]

Definition 2024

outwear

outwear

English

Verb

outwear ‎(third-person singular simple present outwears, present participle outwearing, simple past outwore, past participle outworn)

  1. To wear out
    • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night
      Crushed impotent beneath this reign of terror,
      Dazed with mysteries of woe and error,
      The soul is too outworn for wondering.
    • 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the title of the work):
      According to the audio commentary on “Treehouse Of Horror III,” some of the creative folks at The Simpsons were concerned that the “Treehouse Of Horror” franchise had outworn its welcome and was rapidly running out of classic horror or science-fiction fodder to spoof.
  2. To outlast
  3. To survive longer

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