Home › Words › D › dispropriatedispropriatedispropriate means to cancel the appropriation of; to disappropriate.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, dispropriate ranks #11,076 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom dis- + Latin proprius (“one's own, proper”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), modelled after appropriate.verbTo cancel the appropriation of; to disappropriate.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.disappropriation 83% match — The act of disappropriating; of taking something away from someone. vs dispropriate →appropre 75% match — To appropriate. vs dispropriate →appropry 73% match — To appropriate (for); to set apart. vs dispropriate →disappropriate 72% match — To remove something that has been allocated to someone; often to reassign it elsewhere. vs dispropriate →disimpropriate 70% match — In ecclesiastical law, to remove (ecclesiastical property) from control or management of a layperson. vs dispropriate →misappropriate 70% match — To take something for wrong or illegal purposes. vs dispropriate →unappropriate 69% match — To take from private possession and restore to the possession or right of all, or to a common good. vs dispropriate →unappropriation 69% match — Lack or reversal of appropriation. vs dispropriate →