Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to appropriate
Participle: appropriated
Gerund: appropriating
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | appropriate |
| you | appropriate |
| he;she;it | appropriates |
| we | appropriate |
| you | appropriate |
| they | appropriate |
Perfect
| I | have appropriated |
| you | have appropriated |
| he;she;it | has appropriated |
| we | have appropriated |
| you | have appropriated |
| they | have appropriated |
Past
| I | appropriated |
| you | appropriated |
| he;she;it | appropriated |
| we | appropriated |
| you | appropriated |
| they | appropriated |
Pluperfect
| I | had appropriated |
| you | had appropriated |
| he;she;it | had appropriated |
| we | had appropriated |
| you | had appropriated |
| they | had appropriated |
Future
| I | will appropriate |
| you | will appropriate |
| he;she;it | will appropriate |
| we | will appropriate |
| you | will appropriate |
| they | will appropriate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have appropriated |
| you | will have appropriated |
| he;she;it | will have appropriated |
| we | will have appropriated |
| you | will have appropriated |
| they | will have appropriated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | appropriate |
| you | appropriate |
| he;she;it | appropriate |
| we | appropriate |
| you | appropriate |
| they | appropriate |
Perfect
| I | have appropriated |
| you | have appropriated |
| he;she;it | have appropriated |
| we | have appropriated |
| you | have appropriated |
| they | have appropriated |
Imperfect
| I | appropriated |
| you | appropriated |
| he;she;it | appropriated |
| we | appropriated |
| you | appropriated |
| they | appropriated |
Pluperfect
| I | had appropriated |
| you | had appropriated |
| he;she;it | had appropriated |
| we | had appropriated |
| you | had appropriated |
| they | had appropriated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would appropriate |
| you | would appropriate |
| he;she;it | would appropriate |
| we | would appropriate |
| you | would appropriate |
| they | would appropriate |
Perfect
| I | would have appropriated |
| you | would have appropriated |
| he;she;it | would have appropriated |
| we | would have appropriated |
| you | would have appropriated |
| they | would have appropriated |
Imperative
| you | appropriate |
| we | Let's appropriate |
| you | appropriate |
Verbs conjugated like 'appropriate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'appropriate'
expropriate,
impropriate,
reappropriate,
unappropriate,
appreciate,
appretiate,
approbate,
appropre,
approximate,
disappropriate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to take something that does not belong to one
- abduct, abstract, bag, bandit, bone, boost, borrow, burglarize, burgle, cheat, chore, convert, cop, cozen, crib, embezzle, filch, fleece, flog, gaffle, half-inch, heist, jack, kidnap, knock off, kype, kyper, liberate, lift, loot, make off with, mill, misappropriate, moonlight requisition, nick, own, peculate, pickpocket, pilfer, pillage, pinch, pirate, plunder, poach, pocket, prig, purloin, raid, ransack, rape, reave, rip, rip off, rob, run off with, snag, snatch, steal, swindle, swipe, thieve, walk off with
- to actively and intentionally gain possession or control
- bag, catch, expropriate, grab, grasp, grip, help oneself, hook, impropriate, make free with, nab, nim, pocket, sack, seize, take
- adopt
- seize, confiscate, allocate, secure, expropriate, usurp, apportion
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1528, from L.L.
appropriatus, pp. of
appropriare "to make one's own," from L.
ad- "to" +
propriare "take as one's own," from
proprius "one's own" (see proper). Adj. sense of "specially suitable, proper" is from 1546.
Appropriation is first recorded 1393, "the making of a thing private property;" sense of "setting aside for some purpose" (esp. of money, etc.) is from 1789.
2. From Middle English appropriaten, from appropriat (“appropriated”) + -en, borrowed from Latin appropriātus, perfect passive participle of appropriō (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) + propriō (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix).
Verbs referencing "appropriate"
German, old spelling
appropriieren.
Sample Sentences
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The House of Representatives is a beautiful and spacious hall, of semicircular shape, supported by handsome pillars. One part of the gallery is appropriated to the ladies, and there they sit in front rows, and come in, and go out, as at a play or concert. The chair is canopied, and raised considerably above the floor of the House; and every member has [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] which was nothing to her, for she could govern any horse that any man could ride, and could drive four-in-hand with the best whip in those parts. Setting forth on one of her patriotic missions, she appropriated to herself the first horse she could lay her hands on; and this offence had brought her where I saw her. She had quite a lovely face, though, as the reader may suppose from this sketch of her [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] traders, and brokers in human bodies and souls,—sets the thing before the eyes of the civilized world in a more tangible form, though the thing done be, after all, in its nature, the same; that is, appropriating one set of human beings to the use and improvement of another without any regard to their own. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] spacious apartment, which, like all the other rooms in the house, opened on to the broad verandah. The room communicated, on one side, with her father and mother's apartment; on the other, with that appropriated to Miss Ophelia. St. Clare had gratified his own eye and taste, in furnishing this room in a style that had a peculiar keeping with the character of her for whom it was intended. The windows were [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] basket was filled, crowded down, and piled, and she had several times put largely into Tom 's. Long after dusk, the whole weary train, with their baskets on their heads, defiled up to the building appropriated to the storing and weighing the cotton. Legree was there, busily conversing with the two drivers.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)