appair

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verb

To make worse; to injure or damage.

OriginMiddle English apeiren ← Old French empeirier →
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Meanings

verbappair (third-person singular simple present appairs, present participle appairing, simple past and past participle appaired)

present singular third person appairs · participle present appairing · participle past appaired · past appaired

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo make worse; to injure or damage.

    The ancient lawes, uſages, cuſtomes, and franchiſes of the Realm, have been, and be greatly appaired, blemiſhed, and confounded […]

    1643, William Prynne, The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes
  2. intransitiveobsoleteTo become impaired; to grow worse.

    I see the more that I them forbear The worse they be from year to year;

    1510, The Summoning of Everyman, Everyman's Library (1909)

Origin

  1. Old Frenchempeirier
  2. Middle Englishapeiren
  3. Englishappair

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

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Anagrams

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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