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as an adjective: - 1
appropriate
verb
1 appropriate
Give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause.
synonyms: allow, earmark, reserve, set aside.
Roget 788:
borrow,
desume†.
hire,
rent,
farm;
take a lease,
take a demise;
take by the hour,
take by the mile,
take by the year
&c.;
hire by the hour,
hire by the mile,
hire by the year
&c.;
adopt,
apply,
appropriate,
imitate,
make use of,
take.
raise money,
take up money;
raise the wind;
fly a kite,
borrow from Peter to pay Paul;
run into debt
etc.
(debt)
806.
replevy [Law].
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Roget 786:
apportion,
divide;
distribute,
administer,
dispense;
billet,
allot,
detail,
cast,
share,
mete;
portion out,
parcel out,
dole out;
deal,
carve.
allocate,
ration,
ration out;
assign;
separate
etc.
44.
partition,
assign,
appropriate,
appoint.
come in for one's share
etc.
(participate)
778.
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2 appropriate
Take possession of by force, as after an invasion.
synonyms: capture, conquer, seize.
Roget 791:
steal,
thieve,
rob,
mug,
purloin,
pilfer,
filch,
prig,
bag,
nim†,
crib,
cabbage,
palm;
abstract;
appropriate,
plagiarize.
convey away,
carry off,
abduct,
kidnap,
crimp;
make off with,
walk off with,
run off with;
run away with;
spirit away,
seize
etc.
(lay violent hands on)
789.
plunder,
pillage,
rifle,
sack,
loot,
ransack,
spoil,
spoliate†,
despoil,
strip,
sweep,
gut,
forage,
levy blackmail,
pirate,
pickeer†,
maraud,
lift cattle,
poach;
smuggle,
run;
badger [Slang];
bail up,
hold up,
stick up;
bunco,
bunko,
filibuster.
swindle,
peculate,
embezzle;
sponge,
mulct,
rook,
bilk,
pluck,
pigeon,
fleece;
defraud
etc.
545;
obtain under false pretenses;
live by one's wits.
rob Peter to pay Paul,
borrow of Peter to pay Paul;
set a thief to catch a thief.
disregard the distinction between meum and disregard the distinction between meum and tuum [Lat.].
[receive stolen goods]
fence,
launder,
launder money.
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Roget 789:
take,
catch,
hook,
nab,
bag,
sack,
pocket,
put into one's pocket;
receive;
accept.
reap,
crop,
cull,
pluck;
gather
etc.
(get)
775;
draw.
appropriate,
expropriate,
impropriate†;
assume,
possess oneself of;
take possession of;
commandeer;
lay one's hands on,
clap one's hands on;
help oneself to;
make free with,
dip one's hands into,
lay under contribution;
intercept;
scramble for;
deprive of.
take away,
carry away,
bear away,
take off,
carry off,
bear off;
adeem†;
abstract;
hurry off with,
run away with;
abduct;
steal
etc.
791;
ravish;
seize;
pounce upon,
spring upon;
swoop to,
swoop down upon;
take by storm,
take by assault;
snatch,
reave†.
snap up,
nip up,
whip up,
catch up;
kidnap,
crimp,
capture,
lay violent hands on.
get hold of,
lay hold of,
take hold of,
catch hold of,
lay fast hold of,
take firm hold of;
lay by the heels,
take prisoner;
fasten upon,
grip,
grapple,
embrace,
gripe,
clasp,
grab,
clutch,
collar,
throttle,
take by the throat,
claw,
clinch,
clench,
make sure of.
catch at,
jump at,
make a grab at,
snap at,
snatch at;
reach,
make a long arm,
stretch forth one's hand.
take from,
take away from;
disseize†;
deduct
etc.
38;
retrench
etc.
(curtail)
201;
dispossess,
ease one of,
snatch from one's grasp;
tear from,
tear away from,
wrench from,
wrest from,
wring from;
extort;
deprive of,
bereave;
disinherit,
cut off with a shilling.
oust
etc.
(eject)
297;
divest;
levy,
distrain,
confiscate;
sequester,
sequestrate;
accroach†;
usurp;
despoil,
strip,
fleece,
shear,
displume†,
impoverish,
eat out of house and home;
drain,
drain to the dregs;
gut,
dry,
exhaust,
swallow up;
absorb
etc.
(suck in)
296;
draw off;
suck the blood of,
suck like a leech.
retake,
resume;
recover
etc.
775.
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Dutch: veroveren, buitmaken
adjective
1 appropriate
Suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc.
Roget 79:
special,
particular,
individual,
specific,
proper,
personal,
original,
private,
respective,
definite,
determinate,
especial,
certain,
esoteric,
endemic,
partial,
party,
peculiar,
appropriate,
several,
characteristic,
diagnostic,
exclusive;
singular
etc.
(exceptional)
83;
idiomatic;
idiotypical;
typical.
this,
that;
yon,
yonder.
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Roget 23:
agreeing,
suiting
etc.
v.;
in accord,
accordant,
concordant,
consonant,
congruous,
consentaneous†,
correspondent,
congenial;
coherent;
becoming;
harmonious reconcilable,
conformable;
in accordance with,
in harmony with,
in keeping with,
in unison with,
etc.
n.;
at one with,
of one mind,
of a piece [Fr.];
consistent,
compatible,
proportionate;
commensurate;
on all fours.
apt,
apposite,
pertinent,
pat;
to the point,
to the purpose;
happy,
felicitous,
germane,
ad rem [Lat.],
in point,
on point,
directly on point,
bearing upon,
applicable,
relevant,
admissible.
fit adapted,
in loco,
a propos [Fr.],
appropriate,
seasonable,
sortable,
suitable,
idoneous†,
deft;
meet
etc.
(expedient)
646.
at home,
in one's proper element.
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