superannuate

/sˌuːpəɹˈanjuːˌeɪt/

/sˌuːpɚɹˈænjuːˌeɪt/

[verb]

to superannuate

[VERB]

MAIN VERB

declare to be obsolete

to retire someone because of age or physical inability, often with a pension

a ballroom dance with both quick and slow steps

retire or become ineligible because of old age or infirmity

become obsolete

Examples

1. We do have an interesting problem, and that is, how do we take care of people whose jobs have been superannuated by automatic techniques or programmed methods?

2. [The mind of Europe is] a mind which changes, and that this change is a development which abandons nothing en route which does not superannuate either Shakespeare or Homer, or the rock drawing of the Magdalenian draftsman.