reappropriate
Americanverb (used with object)
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reappropriates,
present (3rd person singular)
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reappropriated,
past, past participle
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reappropriating
present participle
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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reappropriatesimple
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reappropriatessimple
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have reappropriatedperfect
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has reappropriatedperfect
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am reappropriatingprogressive
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are reappropriatingprogressive
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is reappropriatingprogressive
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have been reappropriatingperfect progressive
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has been reappropriatingperfect progressive
Past
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reappropriatedsimple
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had reappropriatedperfect
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was reappropriatingprogressive
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were reappropriatingprogressive
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had been reappropriatingperfect progressive
Future
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Ben Berman, a New York City vegan who began a serious weightlifting regimen last year, said he's trying to reappropriate the epithet "soy boy," historically used to emasculate vegan and vegetarian men.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2024
“We’re going to have to reappropriate that stuff,” Mac said, using a stronger noun at the end.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2018
Years later, when preparing for a Culture Gabfest segment on Twitter, she would reappropriate the name of her blog to create her first and only handle on the site—@thehighsign.
From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2017
Canadian comedians, she wrote in a research paper, were adopting “camp,” a form of humor often used by gay performers to ironically reappropriate homophobic slurs and stereotypes as points of pride.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2017
Now you seek to reappropriate this water, or to have the right cancelled, and see where you wind up.
From The Iron Furrow by Henry A. Botkin
In this way, Leigh reappropriates a portrait initially depicted through a lens of colonialism, literally recasting it in bronze.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
It reappropriates Mr. Sullivan’s own work and uses it to celebrate the ways Native Hawaiians have reclaimed his photographs, plaster busts and tools to learn about their ancestors, genealogy and family.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2021
The participants shown the water bottle with the reappropriated phrase rated MTV 3.9, compared with 3.1, 3.0 and 2.8 for the groups told that MTV denied, ignored or apologized for the insult.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Small funds began to be awarded to researchers soon thereafter; and finally, in 2020, funds were reappropriated by the U.S.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2024
However, despite that history, the flag has been reappropriated over the last 10 years.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2023
That film’s title gets reappropriated in the director Lana Wilson’s absorbing documentary, “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,” which emulsifies its biography of Shields with lucid insights into the culture that shaped her.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2023
The board asks for an appropriation of $50,000 for the ensuing year, and that any unexpended balances remaining on hand on the 30th of June, 1876, may be reappropriated.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 7, part 1: Ulysses S. Grant by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson
“There’s a rich and vast tradition of reappropriating ugly things and taking them back and making them beautiful again and salvaging things from the dumpster,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025
There is some interesting discussion about reappropriating wealth.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2022
The courthouse is full, though, so accommodating a new judge would mean reappropriating an occupied room.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
Taking and reappropriating some of their IP and brands, I find fun.
From The Verge ● Jan. 3, 2020
Instead, she is reappropriating the rape joke as a feminist tool, challenging entrenched cultural attitudes surrounding rape and parts of the stand-up scene that have failed to move beyond a misogynistic past.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2015
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