adjective
- out-of-date, outmoded, or obsolete: outworn ideas; outworn methods.
- worn-out, as clothes.
- exhausted in strength or endurance, as persons.
verb
- past participle of outwear.
verb (used with object), out·wore, out·worn, out·wear·ing.
- to wear or last longer than; outlast: a well-made product that outwears its competition.
- to exhaust in strength or endurance: The daily toil had soon outworn him.
- to outlive or outgrow: Perhaps he will outwear those eccentricities.
- to wear out; destroy by wearing: A child outwears clothes quickly.
- to pass (time): trying to outwear the hours by reading.
adjective
- no longer accepted, used, believed, etc; obsolete or outmoded
verb -wears, -wearing, -wore or -worn (tr)
- to use up or destroy by wearing
- to last or wear longer than
- to outlive, outgrow, or develop beyond
- to deplete or exhaust in strength, determination, etc
adj.from out (adv.) + worn.