superannuated
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
动词 v.
- simple past and past participle of superannuate
形容词 adj.
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Obsolete, antiquated.
— In Europe it’s too dreary—the sapience, the solemnity, the false respectability, the verbosity, the long disquisitions on superannuated subjects.
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Retired or discarded due to age.
— I have known a great deal of the trouble of annuities; for my mother was clogged with the payment of three to old superannuated servants by my father’s will, and it is amazing how disagreeable she found it.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From the Latin superannuatus (“more than one year old”), from super (“over”) (English super-) + annus (“year”) (English annual).
词源 2
From the Latin superannuatus (“more than one year old”), from super (“over”) (English super-) + annus (“year”) (English annual).
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