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disappropriating

disappropriating is the present participle and gerund of disappropriate.

Meaning of disappropriate

Verb

disappropriate (third-person singular simple present disappropriates, present participle disappropriating, simple past and past participle disappropriated)

  1. To remove something that has been allocated to someone; often to reassign it elsewhere.

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Questions about disappropriating

What is disappropriating the present participle and gerund of?
Disappropriating is the present participle and gerund of disappropriate.

Words near disappropriating in the dictionary

  1. disapprobative
  2. disapprobatory
  3. disappropriate
  4. disappropriated
  5. disappropriates
  6. disappropriating
  7. disappropriation
  8. disappropriations
  9. disapprovable
  10. disapproval
  11. disapprovals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disappropriating (page history and authors); disappropriate (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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