approve
/əˈpɹuːv/ verb C2- To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit — said especially of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.
He/she/it approves · Past approved · Past participle approved · -ing form approving
Verb forms
- Base form
- approve
- He/she/it
- approves
- Past
- approved
- Past participle
- approved
- -ing form
- approving
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But I don’t approve of this concert plan.
“I don’t approve of children’s getting up concerts and racing about to practices.
Allan or Miss Stacy I want it more than ever and I want to do just what would please you and what you would approve of.
Elizabeth listened in silence, but was not convinced: their behaviour at the assembly had not been calculated to please in general; and with more quickness of observation and less pliancy of temper than her sister, and with a judgment, too, unassailed by any attention to herself, she was very little disposed to approve them.
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