From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Outwear \Out*wear"\, verb (used with an object)
1. To wear out; to consume or destroy by wearing. --Milton.
2. To last longer than; to outlast; as, this cloth will outwear the other. ''If I the night outwear.'' --Pope.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
verb
1: last longer than others; "This material outwears all others"
2: exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" [syn: {tire}, {wear upon}, {tire out}, {wear}, {weary}, {jade}, {wear out}, {wear down}, {fag out}, {fag}, {fatigue}] [ant: {refresh}] [also: {outworn}, {outwore}]
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