superannuate
IPA: supɝˈænjʌwʌt
verb
- (transitive) To retire or put out of use due to age.
- (transitive) To show to be obsolete due to age.
- (intransitive) To retire due to age.
- (intransitive) To become obsolete or antiquated.
- (transitive) To give a pension to, on account of old age or other infirmity; to cause to retire from service on a pension.
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Examples of "superannuate" in Sentences
- Is he a superannuated footballer
- He was superannuated in the year 1986.
- People aren't interested to superannuated rock star.
- Tex. conference with superannuate relation; Methodist.
- Still in ill health, he was declared superannuated in 1813.
- Superannuated pilots were retired or assigned to other duties.
- He was superannuated in 1831, unable to continue riding circuits.
- But it was sadly apparent that most of them were superannuated lechers.
- He should lose his job but will probably survive in superannuated comfort.
- He is now a superannuate in the Virginia Conference and lives in Suffolk, Va.
- Her social circle also included wealthy superannuated playboy Bernie Cornfeld.
- A _superannuate_ is one who has become impaired or disabled by length of years.
- He said, "This is the last year that I will preside, as I expect to superannuate this year."
- However, John, a superannuated rugger player and general games addict, was transformed overnight into a ski enthusiast.
- He underwent many hardships: he transfered to the Baltimore Conference in 1882 and is now a superannuate in that Conference.
- C.A. Holmes, A. B., by his request was granted superannuate relations because of physical inability to continue in active service.
- But he did not settle down or superannuate because he had moved to a community that was well supplied with preachers and Christian workers.
- These crumbling relicks and long fired particles superannuate such expectations; bones, hairs, nails, and teeth of the dead, were the treasures of old sorcerers.
- He must be aware that the mind of Europethe mind of his own countrya mind which he learns in time to be much more important than his own private mindis a mind which changes, and that this change is a development which abandons nothing en route, which does not superannuate either Shakespeare, or Homer, or the rock drawing of the Magdalenian draughtsmen.
- Eternally the ridiculous pretence of being "noble" by family, seems to claim for obscure foreigners some sort of advantage over the plain untitled Englishman; but eternally the travelled Englishman recollects, that, so far as this equivocal "nobility" had been really fenced with privileges, those have been long in a course of superannuation; whilst the counter-vailing advantages for his own native aristocracy are precisely those which time or political revolutions never _can_ superannuate.