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appair

appair verb: to make worse; to injure or damage.

Verb

appair (third-person singular simple present appairs, present participle appairing, simple past and past participle appaired)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make worse; to injure or damage.
    • The ancient lawes, uſages, cuſtomes, and franchiſes of the Realm, have been, and be greatly appaired, blemiſhed, and confounded […]1643, William Prynne, The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To become impaired; to grow worse.
    • I see the more that I them forbear
      The worse they be from year to year;1510, The Summoning of Everyman, Everyman's Library (1909)

Forms of appair

third-person singular presentappairs
present participleappairing
past participleappaired
pastappaired

Origin of appair

From Middle English apeiren, from Old French empeirier (modern French empirer). See impair.

Questions about appair

What does appair mean?
Appair means to make worse; to injure or damage.
What part of speech is appair?
Appair is a verb.
What is the past tense of appair?
The past tense of appair is appaired.

Words near appair in the dictionary

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  4. app.
  5. Appaduraian
  6. appair
  7. appaired
  8. appairing
  9. appairs
  10. appal
  11. Appalachia

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