"outwear" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: outwears [present, singular, third-person], outwearing [participle, present], outwore [past], outworn [participle, past]
Etymology: out- + wear Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|out|wear}} out- + wear Head templates: {{en-verb|outwears|outwearing|outwore|outworn}} outwear (third-person singular simple present outwears, present participle outwearing, simple past outwore, past participle outworn)
  1. (transitive) To wear out. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-outwear-en-verb-OXf3uHtp Categories (other): English terms prefixed with out- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with out-: 75 25
  2. (transitive) To outlast; to survive or outlive longer than. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-outwear-en-verb-wAaGzzEY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 73

Inflected forms

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