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appairs

appairs is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 appairs

What is appairs the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Appairs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of appair.

Words near appairs in the dictionary

  1. app.
  2. Appaduraian
  3. appair
  4. appaired
  5. appairing
  6. appairs
  7. appal
  8. Appalachia
  9. Appalachian
  10. Appalachian Barbara's buttons
  11. Appalachian dulcimer

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