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malappropriate

malappropriate verb: synonym of misappropriate.

Verb

malappropriate (third-person singular simple present malappropriates, present participle malappropriating, simple past and past participle malappropriated)

  1. Synonym of misappropriate.
    Synonyms:
    misappropriate

malappropriate meaning in Urdu

malappropriate in Urdu

غلط استعمال کرنا

Synonyms of malappropriate

Forms of malappropriate

third-person singular presentmalappropriates
present participlemalappropriating
past participlemalappropriated
pastmalappropriated

Origin of malappropriate

From mal- + appropriate.

Questions about malappropriate

What does malappropriate mean?
Malappropriate means synonym of misappropriate.
What is malappropriate in Urdu?
Malappropriate in Urdu is غلط استعمال کرنا. See Malappropriate meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is malappropriate?
Malappropriate is a verb.
What is the past tense of malappropriate?
The past tense of malappropriate is malappropriated.

Words near malappropriate in the dictionary

  1. malapportionment
  2. malapportionments
  3. malapposed
  4. malapposition
  5. malappositions
  6. malappropriate
  7. malappropriated
  8. malappropriates
  9. malappropriating
  10. malappropriation
  11. malappropriations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: malappropriate (page history and authors); malappropriate (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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