Meaning

3 senses

  1. To seize and reassign.

  2. To appropriate again.

    Near-synonym: reassign

  3. To reclaim a term that was previously used to disparage the reclaimers' own social group.

    Once a term of homophobic abuse, the term “queer” has been reappropriated as a marker for some gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT), and other marginalized sexual identities.

Forms

reappropriates, reappropriating, reappropriated, reappropriated
Base formreappropriate · to reappropriate
3rd person singularreappropriates
Present participlereappropriating
Past simplereappropriated
Past participlereappropriated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyreappropriate
he, she, itreappropriates

Past simpleLesson

all personsreappropriated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave reappropriated
he, she, ithas reappropriated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill reappropriate

Synonyms

3 synonyms
reclaimB1reassigntake back

Word family

1 related words
Relatedreappropriation

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
reapC1reaperreappearreapplyrearB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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