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out⋅wear
[out-wair] 
–verb (used with object), -wore, -worn, -wear⋅ing.
| 1. | to wear or last longer than; outlast: a well-made product that outwears its competition. |
| 2. | to exhaust in strength or endurance: The daily toil had soon outworn him. |
| 3. | to outlive or outgrow: Perhaps he will outwear those eccentricities. |
| 4. | to wear out; destroy by wearing: A child outwears clothes quickly. |
| 5. | to pass (time): trying to outwear the hours by reading. |
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| out·wear (out-wâr') tr.v. out·wore (-wôr', -wōr'), out·worn (-wôrn', -wōrn'), out·wear·ing, out·wears
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Outwear
Out*wear"\, v. 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.
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