superannuate

Other forms of superannuate

past tense

superannuated·

present participle

superannuating·

third person

superannuates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about superannuate

What does superannuate mean?

superannuate means "retire and pension (someone) because of age or physical inability". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in superannuate?

superannuate has 5 syllables and divides as su-pe-ran-nu-ate under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is superannuate a common word?

superannuate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.