approportionate

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verb

to render proportionate; to proportion.

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Meanings

verbapproportionate (third-person singular simple present approportionates, present participle approportionating, simple past and past participle approportionated)

present singular third person approportionates · participle present approportionating · participle past approportionated · past approportionated

  1. to render proportionate; to proportion.

    "[…] the extreme lightness of her [a Bird-of-Paradise's] furniture being approportionated to the thinness of that Element [Air]?"

    1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 78

Origin

From ap- (form of ad- (“to”)) + proportionate.

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APA

approportionate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/approportionate

MLA

“approportionate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/approportionate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “approportionate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/approportionate.

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