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appress

appress verb: to press close to.

Verb

appress (third-person singular simple present appresses, present participle appressing, simple past and past participle appressed)

  1. (transitive) To press close to.

Forms of appress

third-person singular presentappresses
present participleappressing
past participleappressed
pastappressed
alternative formadpress

Origin of appress

An adaptation of appress-, the perfect passive participial stem of the Latin apprimō (“to press close to”).

Words formed from appress

Questions about appress

What does appress mean?
Appress means to press close to.
What part of speech is appress?
Appress is a verb.
What is the past tense of appress?
The past tense of appress is appressed.

Words near appress in the dictionary

  1. apprentise
  2. apprentises
  3. appresent
  4. appresentation
  5. appresorial
  6. appress
  7. appressed
  8. appressed-fibrillose
  9. appressed-fibrillose-striate
  10. appressed-silky
  11. appressed-squamulose

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