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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Superannuate \Su`per*an"nu*ate\, 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.
2. To give a pension to, on account of old age or other
infirmity; to cause to retire from service on a pension.
资料来源 : WordNet®
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words"; "an obsolete locomotive"; "outdated equipment";
"superannuated laws"; "out-of-date ideas" [syn: {obsolete},
{outdated}, {out-of-date}]