Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To destroy the appropriation of; disappropriate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb rare To cancel the appropriation of; to disappropriate.

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  • verb transitive To cancel the appropriation of; to disappropriate.

Etymologies

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Latin dis- + propriare to appropriate, from proprius one's own, proper.

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