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ANTIQUATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give an antique appearance to

Example:

antique furniture

Synonyms:

antiquate; antique

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "antiquate" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

antique (any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make obsolete or old-fashioned

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "antiquate" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

Antiquated term describing follicular (nodular) or diffuse non-Hodgkin's lymphomas that are composed of a mixture of large cells: large cleaved cells, with irregular nuclei without visible nucleoli; and large non-cleaved cells (centroblasts), having a rounder nucleus with two to three small, peripherally placed nucleoli and a small amount of basophilic cytoplasm.

(Malignant Lymphoma, Large Cell, Cleaved and Non-Cleaved, NCI Thesaurus)

The furniture once appropriated to the lower apartments had from time to time been removed here, as fashions changed: and the imperfect light entering by their narrow casement showed bedsteads of a hundred years old; chests in oak or walnut, looking, with their strange carvings of palm branches and cherubs' heads, like types of the Hebrew ark; rows of venerable chairs, high-backed and narrow; stools still more antiquated, on whose cushioned tops were yet apparent traces of half-effaced embroideries, wrought by fingers that for two generations had been coffin-dust.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)