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outwore

outwore is the simple past 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 outwore

What is outwore the simple past of?
Outwore is the simple past of outwear.

Words near outwore in the dictionary

  1. outwoo
  2. Outwood
  3. Outwoods
  4. outwooed
  5. outwooing
  6. outwore
  7. outwork
  8. outworked
  9. outworker
  10. outworkers
  11. outworking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outwore (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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