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

2. declare to be obsolete

3. become obsolete

4. retire or become ineligible because of old age or infirmity

  Familiarity information: SUPERANNUATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPERANNUATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they superannuate    ... he / she / it superannuates   
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superannuation (the property of being out of date and not current)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superannuation (the property of being out of date and not current)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)