superannuate
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He was as ready to offer compensation as we ourselves are when we superannuate a clerk or suppress an office.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James
These crumb- ling relicks and long fired particles superannuate such expectations; bones, hairs, nails, and teeth of the dead, were the treasures of old sorcerers.
From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir
A superannuate is one who has become impaired or disabled by length of years.
From Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois by Cavins, Elmer W.
If I was a Lord of the Admiralty I’d promote you to-day and superannuate you to-morrow.
From The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley by Kingston, William Henry Giles
Nothing can superannuate its charm, nothing can quench its fascination.
From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred
But today Iran’s proxies are weakened, its economy is fragile, its population is restless and its leadership is superannuated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
Disney may have figured that it had a couple of surefire hits in its pipeline with “The Marvels” and “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” a sequel in that already superannuated series.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2024
Our health care, housing, recreation and retirement institutions are not set up to manage the needs of the superannuated.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2021
Two years later, Stallone released The Expendables, the first of a three-film series in which he starred at the centre of a medley of superannuated action heroes.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2019
At about one o’clock we came at last to old 64, a lonesome, superannuated two-lane road through the mountains.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
