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disproperty

disproperty verb: to strip of property; to dispossess (someone) of.

Verb

disproperty (third-person singular simple present disproperties, present participle dispropertying, simple past and past participle dispropertied)

  1. (transitive) To strip of property; to dispossess (someone) of.
    • He still hath held them; that, to his power, he would
      Have made them mules, silenc'd their pleaders, and
      Disproperty'd their freedomsc. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Forms of disproperty

third-person singular presentdisproperties
present participledispropertying
past participledispropertied
pastdispropertied

Origin of disproperty

From dis- + property.

Questions about disproperty

What does disproperty mean?
Disproperty means to strip of property; to dispossess (someone) of.
What part of speech is disproperty?
Disproperty is a verb.
What is the past tense of disproperty?
The past tense of disproperty is dispropertied.

Words near disproperty in the dictionary

  1. disprooved
  2. disprooves
  3. disprooving
  4. dispropertied
  5. disproperties
  6. disproperty
  7. dispropertying
  8. disproportion
  9. disproportionable
  10. disproportionableness
  11. disproportionably

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