Definition of Overaged

1. Adjective. Too old to be useful. "He left the house...for the support of twelve superannuated wool carders"

Exact synonyms: Over-the-hill, Overage, Superannuated
Similar to: Old

Definition of Overaged

1. too old to be useful [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overaged

overacts
overacute
overadjusted
overadjustment
overadjustments
overadored
overadvertise
overadvertised
overadvertises
overadvertising
overaffect
overaffected
overaffecting
overaffects
overage
overaged (current term)
overages
overaggressive
overaggressively
overaggressiveness
overagitate
overagitated
overagitates
overagitating
overalert
overalkylation
overall
overall response rate
overalled
overallocated

Literary usage of Overaged

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Education for Business by Leverett Samuel Lyon (1922)
"These overaged, retarded, and mentally unfortunate groups are peculiarly the responsibility of the junior high school. The latter must therefore, ..."

2. Industrial Education: Typical Experiments Described and Interpreted by Samuel Chester Parker, F. M. Leavitt, Arthur Coleman Manahan (1912)
"At first the overaged, the mentally slow, formed the school membership. The quality of pupils is, however, improving. The courses of work are planned to ..."

3. Tax Administration: Allegations of IRS Employee Misconduct edited by Lawrence M. Korb (1999)
"... and iss raised during the April 1998 Senate Finance Committee hearings. SIRS defined overaged cases as those cases pending in OES for more than 90 days. ..."

4. Report by House of the People, India, Parliament, Estimates Committee (1886)
"Eastern Railway were about the highest in the country I on the 31st March, 1963: The following is the replacement programme of the 172 overaged locomotives: ..."

5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1903)
"Such vinegars they say become "overaged." A good example of a deteriorated vinegar is afforded in the fermentation experiment. After an interval of eighteen ..."

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