superannuate
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You will have to superannuate it shortly, and return to the old original letter-box—my letter-box, which I remember so well.
From The Laurel Bush by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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 William Henry Giles Kingston
As he increased in years so did he in his abstractions of mind, and the governors of the charity thought it necessary to superannuate him with a pension.
From Jacob Faithful by Frederick Marryat
But no time can superannuate the subjects which Burns has sung; they are rooted in the primary strata, which are steadfast.
From Robert Burns by John Campbell Shairp
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 Elmer W. Cavins
The succession law puts a superannuated senator third in line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 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
Typically, promising stars are put through a gruelling training schedule as they pass along the conveyor-belt production of new girl and boybands to replace their quickly superannuated colleagues.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2019
The talk of setting aside a corner of the pasture for superannuated animals had long since been dropped.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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