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appairing

appairing is the present participle and gerund 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 appairing

What is appairing the present participle and gerund of?
Appairing is the present participle and gerund of appair.

Words near appairing in the dictionary

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