outmode

outmodeverb

• 1

  To render (something) no longer fashionable.

  • 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.
  • Every aspect of Renaissance realism seemed calculated to outmode the medieval illuminators' pictorial vocabulary with its miniature dimensions - two-dimensional patterning and conventionalizations of natural forms.

outmodenoun

• 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.
  • Which brings us to what happens after a robot perishes. As the Rusties explain, "outmodes"-- robots who can no longer get spare parts to be repaired -- are swept up by Sweepers and taken to the Chop Shop, where they're melted down into something else.