outdate
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]outdate (comparative more outdate, superlative most outdate)
- (UK, rare) Old-fashioned, out of date; outdated.
Verb
[edit]outdate (third-person singular simple present outdates, present participle outdating, simple past and past participle outdated)
- (transitive) To make obsolete or out of date.
- This outdates everything that has come before it.
- (intransitive) To become obsolete or out of date.
- This product outdates four hours after preparation.
- The bedroom is too "themey" and this outdates in no time.
- 1998, Dovid Rossoff, Where Heaven Touches Earth, page iii:
- The age of computers has outdated the quill forever.
- (MRAsian slang, Reddit slang) To date someone of a different racial group.
- Synonym: miscegenate
- 2017 December 6, “The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Asian women and white worship.”, in r/aznidentity[1] (Reddit post), archived from the original on 3 January 2018:
- That's actually... not bad! IR [interracial] marriage rates are very similar to the rates of other minority men. We outdate just fine (out of those of us who manage to marry).
Antonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- outdatable
- outdated (adjective)
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References
[edit]- ^ “outdate, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.