outwear

2 definitions found

outwear - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Outwear \Out*wear"\, v. t.
     1. To wear out; to consume or destroy by wearing. --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To last longer than; to outlast; as, this cloth will
        outwear the other. "If I the night outwear." --Pope.
        [1913 Webster]

outwear - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  outwear
      v 1: last longer than others; "This material outwears all
           others"
      2: exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or
         stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" [syn: tire,
         wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out,
         outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue] [ant:
         freshen, refresh, refreshen]