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ANTIQUATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they antiquate ... he / she / it antiquates
Past simple: antiquated
-ing form: antiquating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Example:
antique furniture
Synonyms:
antiquate; antique
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
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)
Sense 2
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
Context examples:
Antiquated term describing follicular (nodular) or diffuse non-Hodgkin's lymphomas that are composed of a mixture of large cells: large cleaved cells, with irregular nuclei without visible nucleoli; and large non-cleaved cells (centroblasts), having a rounder nucleus with two to three small, peripherally placed nucleoli and a small amount of basophilic cytoplasm.
(Malignant Lymphoma, Large Cell, Cleaved and Non-Cleaved, NCI Thesaurus)
The furniture once appropriated to the lower apartments had from time to time been removed here, as fashions changed: and the imperfect light entering by their narrow casement showed bedsteads of a hundred years old; chests in oak or walnut, looking, with their strange carvings of palm branches and cherubs' heads, like types of the Hebrew ark; rows of venerable chairs, high-backed and narrow; stools still more antiquated, on whose cushioned tops were yet apparent traces of half-effaced embroideries, wrought by fingers that for two generations had been coffin-dust.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)