Outwear
[aʊt'weə]
Definition
(verb.) last longer than others; 'This material outwears all others'.
Typed by Avery--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To wear out; to consume or destroy by wearing.
(v. t.) To last longer than; to outlast; as, this cloth will outwear the other.
Inputed by Dan
Definition
v.t. to wear out: to spend tediously: to last longer than: to consume.
Checker: Lorenzo
Examples
- All over the world socialists are breaking away from the stultifying influence of the outworn determinism. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Each one carries along a quantity of inert and outworn ideas,--not infrequently there is an internally contradictory current. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Through Orient seas, o’er Afric’s plain, And Asian mountains borne, The vigor of the Northern brain Shall nerve the world outworn. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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