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unappropriating

unappropriating is the present participle and gerund of unappropriate.

Meaning of unappropriate

Verb

unappropriate (third-person singular simple present unappropriates, present participle unappropriating, simple past and past participle unappropriated)

  1. (transitive) To take from private possession and restore to the possession or right of all, or to a common good.
    • to unappropriate a monopoly

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Questions about unappropriating

What is unappropriating the present participle and gerund of?
Unappropriating is the present participle and gerund of unappropriate.

Words near unappropriating in the dictionary

  1. unappropriate
  2. unappropriated
  3. unappropriately
  4. unappropriateness
  5. unappropriates
  6. unappropriating
  7. unappropriation
  8. unappropriations
  9. unappropriative
  10. unapprovable
  11. unapproval

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unappropriating (page history and authors); unappropriate (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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