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appaired

appaired is the simple past and past participle of appair.

Meaning of appair

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)

Questions about appaired

What is appaired the simple past and past participle of?
Appaired is the simple past and past participle of appair.

Words near appaired in the dictionary

  1. app wrapper
  2. app wrappers
  3. app.
  4. Appaduraian
  5. appair
  6. appaired
  7. appairing
  8. appairs
  9. appal
  10. Appalachia
  11. Appalachian

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