antiquate
verb
an·ti·quate
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antiquated;
antiquating
Definition of antiquate
: to make old or obsolete
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Other Words from antiquate
antiquation
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noun
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noun
Examples of antiquate in a Sentence
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Still, proponents of Medicare for All call the association’s stance antiquated. — Lisa Schencker, chicagotribune.com, "'Medicare for All'? American Medical Association says no, drawing protest in Chicago.," 10 June 2019 Javed dismissed the entire operation as hopelessly antiquated: even tribal Afghans, living in the Hindu Kush mountains, have Facebook. — Matthew Wolfe, Harper's magazine, "Without a Trace," 10 Feb. 2019 Old-school checkpoint-and-limited-lives design feels positively antiquated. — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, "Mega Man 11 review: Switching gears," 1 Oct. 2018 Time or Life or the Saturday Evening Post—was becoming antiquated. — Sam Tanenhaus, Town & Country, "Can Chris Whittle Launch a Truly Global School?," 10 July 2018 And even if rules are restored, the notion that the internet should afford at least a minimally competitive landscape for new entrants now seems as antiquated as Friendster. — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, "How Net Neutrality Actually Ended Long Before This Week," 11 June 2018 Schumer is surely not alone among Democrats in his fondness for retaining the Senate’s antiquated supermajority requirement. — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, "Chuck Schumer Is Secretly Sabotaging the Next Democratic President," 28 June 2018 In hospitals across the country, medical equipment is antiquated, inoperative or nonexistent. — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, "A Yemeni toddler fought for his life in a hospital while adults battled each other," 25 June 2018 Lin sometimes wondered whether traditional distributors were becoming antiquated in the country. — Will Ford, Outside Online, "Can American Brands Tap the Chinese Outdoor Market?," 20 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'antiquate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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