[out-wawrn, -wohrn] 
| 1. | out-of-date, outmoded, or obsolete: outworn ideas; outworn methods. |
| 2. | worn-out, as clothes. |
| 3. | exhausted in strength or endurance, as persons. |
| 4. | pp. of outwear. |
[out-wair] | 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. |
| out·wear (out-wâr') tr.v. out·wore (-wôr', -wōr'), out·worn (-wôrn', -wōrn'), out·wear·ing, out·wears
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| out·worn (out-wôrn', -wōrn') v. Past participle of outwear. adj. No longer acceptable, usable, or practical: an outworn penal code; outworn clothes. |
