antiquate

American  

[an-ti-kweyt] / ˈæn tɪˌkweɪt /

verb (used with object)

antiquated, antiquating

1. to make obsolete, old-fashioned, or out of date by replacing with something newer or better.

   This latest device will antiquate the ice-cube tray.

2. to design or create in an antique style; cause to appear antique.

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antiquate British  

/ ˈæntɪˌkweɪt /

verb

1. to make obsolete or old-fashioned

2. to give an old or antique appearance to

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Other Word Forms

• antiquation
  noun

Etymology

Origin of antiquate

1400–50; late Middle English antiquat old < Medieval Latin antīquātus old, ancient, past participle of antiquāre to put in an earlier state, verbal derivative of Latin antīquus; see antique

Example Sentences

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antiquate antiquated antiquating

The state made its own luck by allowing its ferry fleet to antiquate and amass $270 million in deferred maintenance.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

His first move in office was to antiquate newspaper files throughout the world by shaving his mustache and buying a new hat: a stiff, eminently correct black Homburg.

From Time Magazine Archive

It calls for payment of $8,000,000,000 from the U. S. Treasury to build $500,000-a-mile, crow-flight highways which would antiquate for express travel most existing routes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Seriously, I believe it will antiquate all types of airplanes, prop or jet.

From The Black Star Passes by John Wood Campbell

Whilst these were under discussion, new matter of complaint came over, which seemed to antiquate the first.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Warsh strongly hinted the Fed would do the same, rather than rely primarily on incomplete or outdated government data collected through antiquated methods.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

So what’s the catalyst for his noteworthy preoccupation with masculinity and all these archetypal characters who embody its antiquated themes?

From Salon ● May 27, 2026

Millennials have long considered a meal on the first date antiquated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026

The funding mechanisms are complicated, the language antiquated and much about the income remains under a padlock of privacy.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

Mainly Academy stuff, in other words, along with what to do during a red dot emergency and the ways in which officers were made vulnerable by the antiquated configurations of Sing Sing’s exercise yards.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

One would represent me as attempting to undermine our native tongue; another, as modernizing; a third, as antiquating it.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 by Various

Of Chatterton's method of antiquating something has already been said.

From The Rowley Poems by Thomas Chatterton