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reappropriating

reappropriating is the present participle and gerund of reappropriate.

Meaning of reappropriate

Verb

reappropriate (third-person singular simple present reappropriates, present participle reappropriating, simple past and past participle reappropriated)

  1. To seize and reassign.
  2. To appropriate again.
    • Near-synonym: reassign
    Synonyms:
    reassign
  3. To reclaim a term that was previously used to disparage the reclaimers' own social group.
    • Once a term of homophobic abuse, the term “queer” has been reappropriated as a marker for some gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT), and other marginalized sexual identities.
    Synonyms:
    take back, reclaim

Questions about reappropriating

What is reappropriating the present participle and gerund of?
Reappropriating is the present participle and gerund of reappropriate.

Words near reappropriating in the dictionary

  1. reapproaching
  2. reapprobation
  3. reappropriate
  4. reappropriated
  5. reappropriates
  6. reappropriating
  7. reappropriation
  8. reappropriations
  9. reappropriator
  10. reappropriators
  11. reapproval

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reappropriating (page history and authors); reappropriate (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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