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approportionate

approportionate verb: to render proportionate; to proportion.

Verb

approportionate (third-person singular simple present approportionates, present participle approportionating, simple past and past participle approportionated)

  1. to render proportionate; to proportion.
    • "[…] the extreme lightness of her [a Bird-of-Paradise's] furniture being approportionated to the thinness of that Element [Air]?"1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 78

Forms of approportionate

third-person singular presentapproportionates
present participleapproportionating
past participleapproportionated
pastapproportionated

Origin of approportionate

From ap- (form of ad- (“to”)) + proportionate.

Questions about approportionate

What does approportionate mean?
Approportionate means to render proportionate; to proportion.
What part of speech is approportionate?
Approportionate is a verb.
What is the past tense of approportionate?
The past tense of approportionate is approportionated.

Words near approportionate in the dictionary

  1. appropinquates
  2. appropinquating
  3. appropinquation
  4. appropinquations
  5. appropinquity
  6. approportionate
  7. approportionated
  8. approportionates
  9. approportionating
  10. appropre
  11. appropred

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