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Outmode

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Something that is unfashionable or obsolete.

    "Encouraged by, for some reason, his clanky, fire-breathing mother, Ratchet wants to take replacement parts off the market and offer expensive "upgrades" instead. The broken-down "outmodes" who cannot afford to remake themselves will be swept off the street and sent to Ma Ratchet's underground furnace."

Verb
  1. 1
    To render (something) no longer fashionable. transitive

    "Thus, in this age of ideological convergence and the outmoding of rigid doctrine, a new pragmatic [relationship] of immense importance seems to be developing here."

  2. 2
    make unfashionable, outdated, or obsolete wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From out- + mode.

Etymology 2

From out- + mode.

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