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disappropriate

disappropriateverb

disappropriated

Past Simple

disappropriated

Past Participle

disappropriating

Gerund

Translations

The government moved to disappropriate the farmland for public use.

Правительство решило экспроприировать сельскохозяйственные угодья для общественных нужд.

Colonial powers disappropriated cultural artifacts from their countries of origin.

Колониальные державы отчуждали культурные артефакты из стран их происхождения.

Additional translations

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Definitions

To take property or rights away from their rightful owner; to dispossess or expropriate.

The government moved to disappropriate the farmland for public use.

To remove something from its proper owner, place, or purpose; to alienate.

Colonial powers disappropriated cultural artifacts from their countries of origin.

disappropriatepast participle

Definitions

Dispossessed or taken away from its rightful owner.

The disappropriated land was left uncultivated.

disappropriategerund / present participle

Definitions

Causing dispossession; expropriating.

The disappropriating regime faced international condemnation.