Superannuated Definition
superannuated
- adjective
- too old to be useful; "He left the house...for the support of twelve superannuated wool carders"- Anthony Trollope
- old; no longer valid or fashionable; "obsolete words"; "an obsolete locomotive"; "outdated equipment"; "superannuated laws"; "out-of-date ideas"
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