appropriate
/əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.eɪt/ verb B1- To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right. · Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
- To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for. · A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden.· to appropriate money for the increase of the navy
He/she/it appropriates · Past appropriated · Past participle appropriated · -ing form appropriating
Verb forms
- Base form
- appropriate
- He/she/it
- appropriates
- Past
- appropriated
- Past participle
- appropriated
- -ing form
- appropriating
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“All these monuments which you see,” said the Monkey, “are erected in honour of my ancestors, who were in their day freedmen and citizens of great renown.” The Fox replied, “You have chosen a most appropriate subject for your falsehoods, as I am sure none of your ancestors will be able to contradict you.”
But as soon as it was finished, the buzz was redoubled through all the drawing-rooms; the brilliant sums, the rolling millions which were to be at the command of the two young people, and which crowned the display of the wedding presents and the young lady’s diamonds, which had been made in a room entirely appropriated for that purpose, had exercised to the full their delusions over the envious assembly.
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