outwear

outwear
/owt'wair"/, v.t., outwore, outworn, outwearing.
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.
[1535-45; OUT- + WEAR]

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