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appeer

appeer is the obsolete spelling of appear.

Meaning of appear

Verb

appear (third-person singular simple present appears, present participle appearing, simple past and past participle appeared)

  1. (intransitive) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
    • And God[…]said, Let[…]the dry land appear.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 1:9
    Synonyms:
    emerge
  2. (intransitive) To come before the public.
    • A great writer appeared at that time.
  3. (intransitive) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, etc.; to present oneself as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.
    • We must all appear before the judgment seat.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Corinthians 5:10
  4. (intransitive) To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest.
    • It doth not yet appear what we shall be.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 John 3:2
  5. (copulative, intransitive) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.
    • He appeared quite happy with the result.
    Synonyms:
    look
  6. (transitive) To bring into view
    • [Angelo] is yet a devil / His filth within being cast, he would appear / A pond as deep as hell.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Forms of appeer

third-person singular presentappeers
present participleappeering
past participleappeered
pastappeered

Questions about appeer

What is appeer the obsolete spelling of?
Appeer is the obsolete spelling of appear.

Words near appeer in the dictionary

  1. appeasest
  2. appeaseth
  3. appeasing
  4. appeasingly
  5. appeasive
  6. appeer
  7. appeere
  8. appel
  9. Appel reaction
  10. Appel reactions
  11. appel.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: appeer (page history and authors); appear (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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