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Found 3 hits - Term: superannuated, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
superannuate \su`peran"nuate\, v. t. imp.  p. p.
   superannuated; p. pr.  vb. n. superannuating. pref.
   super- + l. annus a year.
   1. to impair or disquality on account of age or infirmity.
      --sir t. browne.
      1913 webster

   2. to give a pension to, on account of old age or other
      infirmity; to cause to retire from service on a pension.
      1913 webster
see also:
superannuated superannuating 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
superannuated
     adj 1: discharged as too old for use or work; especially with a
            pension; "a superannuated civil servant" syn: retired
     2: too old to be useful; "he left the house...for the support
        of twelve superannuated wool carders"- anthony trollope
        syn: overage, overaged, over-the-hill
     3: old; no longer in use or valid or fashionable; "obsolete
        words"; "an obsolete locomotive"; "outdated equipment";
        "superannuated laws"; "out-of-date ideas" syn: obsolete,
         outdated, out-of-date
see also:
retired overage overaged over-the-hill obsolete outdated 
out-of-date 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
46 moby thesaurus words for "superannuated":
   gothic, victorian, abandoned, abjured, antediluvian, antiquated,
   antique, archaic, classical, deserted, discontinued, disused,
   done with, emeritus, fossil, fossilized, grown old, in retirement,
   medieval, mid-victorian, not worth saving, obsolescent, obsolete,
   of other times, old, old-fashioned, old-world, on pension,
   on the shelf, out, out of use, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded,
   outworn, past use, pensioned, pensioned off, petrified,
   relinquished, renounced, resigned, retired, superannuate,
   superseded, worn-out





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