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outwore

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out⋅wear

  [out-wair]
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–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.
Origin:
1535–45; out- + wear
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out·wear   (out-wâr')   
tr.v.   out·wore (-wôr', -wōr'), out·worn (-wôrn', -wōrn'), out·wear·ing, out·wears

  1. To last longer than; outlast: durable clothing that outwears other brands.

  2. To get over (something) by the passage of time; outgrow: "He . . . may outwear those unattractive qualities of character" (Westminster Gazette).

out·wore   (out-wôr', -wōr')   
v.  Past tense of outwear.
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