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outwearing

outwearing is the present participle and gerund of outwear.

Meaning of outwear

Verb

outwear (third-person singular simple present outwears, present participle outwearing, simple past outwore, past participle outworn)

  1. (transitive) To outlast; to survive longer than: to outlive.
  2. (nonstandard, transitive, uncommon) To wear out.
    • Crushed impotent beneath this reign of terror,
      Dazed with mysteries of woe and error,
      The soul is too outworn for wondering.1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night

Questions about outwearing

What is outwearing the present participle and gerund of?
Outwearing is the present participle and gerund of outwear.

Words near outwearing in the dictionary

  1. outweaponing
  2. outweapons
  3. outwear
  4. outwearied
  5. outwearies
  6. outwearing
  7. outwears
  8. outweary
  9. outwearying
  10. outweave
  11. outweaves

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outwearing (page history and authors); outwear (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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