superannuate
Americanverb (used with object)
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to allow to retire from service or office on a pension because of age or infirmity.
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to set aside as out of date; remove as too old.
verb (used without object)
verb
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to pension off
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to discard as obsolete or old-fashioned
Etymology
Origin of superannuate
First recorded in 1640–50; back formation from superannuated
Example Sentences
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You will have to superannuate it shortly, and return to the old original letter-box—my letter-box, which I remember so well.
From The Laurel Bush by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
These crumb- ling relicks and long fired particles superannuate such expectations; bones, hairs, nails, and teeth of the dead, were the treasures of old sorcerers.
From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Sir Thomas Browne
As he increased in years so did he in his abstractions of mind, and the governors of the charity thought it necessary to superannuate him with a pension.
From Jacob Faithful by Frederick Marryat
He was as ready to offer compensation as we ourselves are when we superannuate a clerk or suppress an office.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
A superannuate is one who has become impaired or disabled by length of years.
From Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois by Elmer W. Cavins
The succession law puts a superannuated senator third in line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
Disney may have figured that it had a couple of surefire hits in its pipeline with “The Marvels” and “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” a sequel in that already superannuated series.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2024
It’s a poignant, faintly surreal encounter, two superannuated grandees coming to terms with their own obsolescence, but Morgan felt it didn’t quite work as an ending.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2019
But if superannuated comedians are our new rulers, perhaps we’ve only ourselves to blame?
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2019
At about one o’clock we came at last to old 64, a lonesome, superannuated two-lane road through the mountains.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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