ANTIQUATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does antiquate mean? 

• ANTIQUATE (verb)
  The verb ANTIQUATE has 2 senses:

1. make obsolete or old-fashioned

2. give an antique appearance to

  Familiarity information: ANTIQUATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTIQUATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they antiquate    ... he / she / it antiquates   
Past simple: antiquated   
Past participle: antiquated   
-ing form: antiquating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make obsolete or old-fashioned

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "antiquate" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give an antique appearance to

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

antiquate; antique

Context example:

antique furniture

Hypernyms (to "antiquate" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

antique (any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity)

 Context examples 

An antiquated term referring to a malignant lymphoma that is diffused and composed of small and large lymphocytes.

(Lymphosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An antiquated term referring to cases of systemic non-Hodgkin lymphomas which are composed of large, atypical neoplastic lymphoid cells and cases of hemophagocytic syndromes.

(Malignant Histiocytosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Antiquated term describing non-Hodgkin's lymphomas that are usually diffuse and are composed of large cells with irregular nuclei, invisible nucleoli and a small amount of cytoplasm.

(Malignant Lymphoma, Large Cell, Cleaved, NCI Thesaurus)

Antiquated term for diffuse non-Hodgkin's lymphomas composed of non-cleaved cells.

(Malignant Lymphoma, Non-Cleaved, Diffuse, NCI Thesaurus)

An antiquated term referring to non-Hodgkin lymphomas composed of small and medium sized lymphocytes.

(Lymphosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

An antiquated term referring to non-Hodgkin lymphomas with a mixed cellular composition.

(Diffuse Mixed Cell Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

One day he would read a book of antiquated philosophy, and the next day one that was ultra-modern, so that his head would be whirling with the conflict and contradiction of ideas.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

An antiquated term for a diffuse B-or T-cell lymphoma composed of small cleaved lymphocytes, occurring in adults.

(Adult Diffuse Small Cleaved Cell Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The NCI term type designation for an "antiquated disease term".

(AQ Term Type, NCI Thesaurus)

An antiquated term referring to non-Hodgkin lymphomas with a diffuse architectural pattern.

(Diffuse Malignant Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)