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appose

/əˈpəʊz/

appose verb: to interrogate; to question.

Verb (1)

appose (third-person singular simple present apposes, present participle apposing, simple past and past participle apposed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
    • I shal assaye hir my-self · and sothelich appose / What man of þis worlde · þat hire were leueste.c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “[Passus III]”, in The Vision of Pierce Plowman [...] (Cr, B-text), London: […] Roberte Crowley, […], published 1550, →OCLC
    • Then gan Authority her to appose / With peremptorie powre […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Verb (2)

appose (third-person singular simple present apposes, present participle apposing, simple past and past participle apposed)

  1. (transitive) To place next or to or near to; to juxtapose.
  2. (transitive) To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).
    • The nymph herself did then appose, / For food and beverage, to him all best meat.1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615...

appose meaning in Urdu

appose in Urdu

لگانا, نافذ کرنا, سامنا کرنا

Forms of appose

third-person singular presentapposes
present participleapposing
past participleapposed
pastapposed

Origin of appose

Variant form of oppose.

Coined based on Latin appōnō, by analogy with compose, suppose etc.

Words formed from appose

Words that rhyme with appose

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Questions about appose

What does appose mean?
Appose means to interrogate; to question.
What is appose in Urdu?
Appose in Urdu is لگانا, نافذ کرنا, سامنا کرنا. See Appose meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is appose?
Appose is a verb.
How do you pronounce appose?
Appose is pronounced /əˈpəʊz/.
What is the past tense of appose?
The past tense of appose is apposed.

Words near appose in the dictionary

  1. apportionments
  2. apportions
  3. apports
  4. apposability
  5. apposable
  6. appose
  7. apposed
  8. apposer
  9. apposers
  10. apposes
  11. apposing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: appose (page history and authors); appose (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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