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Etymology

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

Verb

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dispropriate (third-person singular simple present dispropriates, present participle dispropriating, simple past and past participle dispropriated)

  1. (transitive) To cancel the appropriation of; to disappropriate.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dispropriate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)