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DISPROPRIATE

Definition: DISPROPRIATE

DISPROPRIATE

Transitive verb

1. To cancel the appropriation of; to disappropriate.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Dispropriate \Dis*pro"pri*ate\, transitive verb. [Latin expression dis- propriare to appropriate, from proprius one's own, proper.]. (Websters 1913)


Anagrams: DISPROPRIATE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-o-p-p-r-r-s-t"

-2 letters: podiatries.

-3 letters: disrepair, drippiest, preadopts, predators, priorates, stroppier, teardrops, topiaries, tripodies.

-4 letters: adopters, adroiter, airdrops, airports, airstrip, apposite, apprised, appriser, asteroid, diaspore, dioptase, diopters, dioptres, diorites, dippiest, drippers, drippier, droppers, eardrops, parities, parodies, parodist, parotids, parroted, partiers, pastored, periapts, peridots, pierrots, postpaid, praetors, prairies, preadopt, predator, presidia, presidio, priorate, priories, prorated, prorates, proteids.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-i-o-p-p-r-r-s-t"
 

+3 letters: misappropriated.

 

+4 letters: disproportionate.

 

+5 letters: disproportionated, disproportionates.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DISPROPRIATE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 49 53 50 52 4F 50 52 49 41 54 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ..    ...    .--.    .-.    ---    .--.    .-.    ..    .-    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01001001 01010011 01010000 01010010 01001111 01010000 01010010 01001001 01000001 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#83 &#80 &#82 &#79 &#80 &#82 &#73 &#65 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0053 0050 0052 004F 0050 0052 0049 0041 0054 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

384353505249505243355439

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