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adpress

adpress is the alternative form of appress.

Meaning of appress

Verb

appress (third-person singular simple present appresses, present participle appressing, simple past and past participle appressed)

  1. (transitive) To press close to.

Forms of adpress

third-person singular presentadpresses
present participleadpressing
past participleadpressed
pastadpressed

Origin of adpress

An adaptation of adpress-, the perfect passive participial stem of the Latin adprimō, variant spelling of apprimō.

Questions about adpress

What is adpress the alternative form of?
Adpress is the alternative form of appress.

Words near adpress in the dictionary

  1. adpositionally
  2. adpositionhood
  3. adpositions
  4. adprep
  5. adpreps
  6. adpress
  7. adpressed
  8. adpresses
  9. adpressing
  10. adpression
  11. adpromissor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adpress (page history and authors); appress (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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