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impropered

impropered is the simple past and past participle of improper.

Meaning of improper

Verb

improper (third-person singular simple present impropers, present participle impropering, simple past and past participle impropered)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To appropriate; to assign (something, to someone) as a possession or prerogative.
    • He would in like manner improper and inclose the sunbeams to comfort the rich and not the poor.1565, John Jewel, letter to Thomas Harding

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Questions about impropered

What is impropered the simple past and past participle of?
Impropered is the simple past and past participle of improper.

Words near impropered in the dictionary

  1. improper rotations
  2. improper time
  3. improper times
  4. improperation
  5. improperations
  6. impropered
  7. improperer
  8. improperest
  9. Improperia
  10. impropering
  11. improperly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: impropered (page history and authors); improper (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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