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SUPERANNUATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does superannuate mean?
• SUPERANNUATE (verb)
The verb SUPERANNUATE has 4 senses:
1. retire and pension (someone) because of age or physical inability
4. retire or become ineligible because of old age or infirmity
Familiarity information: SUPERANNUATE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: superannuated
Past participle: superannuated
-ing form: superannuating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Retire and pension (someone) because of age or physical inability
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "superannuate" is one way to...):
retire (make (someone) retire)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
superannuation (the act of discharging someone because of age (especially to cause someone to retire from service on a pension))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Declare to be obsolete
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "superannuate" is one way to...):
adjudge; declare; hold (declare to be)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
superannuation (the property of being out of date and not current)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Become obsolete
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "superannuate" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
superannuation (the property of being out of date and not current)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Retire or become ineligible because of old age or infirmity
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "superannuate" is one way to...):
retire (go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples
So, stifling a natural regret at the thought of the home comforts he would leave behind him, he said stoutly, Bless your soul, I'm not superannuated yet.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I have known a great deal of the trouble of annuities; for my mother was clogged with the payment of three to old superannuated servants by my father's will, and it is amazing how disagreeable she found it.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
There was a black barge, or some other kind of superannuated boat, not far off, high and dry on the ground, with an iron funnel sticking out of it for a chimney and smoking very cosily; but nothing else in the way of a habitation that was visible to me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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