Etymology

appair

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Today it means: To make worse; to injure or damage. Full definition →

Middle English apeiren ← Old French empeirier
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromempeirier
  2. Middle English · inherited fromapeiren
  3. English todayappair

From Middle English apeiren, from Old French empeirier (modern French empirer). See impair.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchempeirier all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.