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SUPERANNUATE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they superannuate ... he / she / it superannuates
Past simple: superannuated
Past participle: superannuated
-ing form: superannuating
Sense 1
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
Sense 2
Meaning:
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superannuation (the property of being out of date and not current)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 3
Meaning:
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superannuation (the property of being out of date and not current)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 4
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))