append

American  

[uh-pend] / əˈpɛnd /

verb (used with object)

• appends,
  present (3rd person singular)
• appended,
  past participle,  past
• appending
  present participle

1. to add as a supplement, accessory, or appendix; subjoin.

   to append a note to a letter.

2. to attach or suspend as a pendant.

3. to sign a document with; affix.

   to append one's signature to a will.

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append British  

/ əˈpɛnd /

verb

1. to add as a supplement

   to append a footnote

2. to attach; hang on

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• misappended
  adjective
• unappended
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Participles

• appending
  present
• appended
  past

Conjugated Forms

Present

• append
  simple
• appends
  simple
• have appended
  perfect
• has appended
  perfect
• am appending
  progressive
• are appending
  progressive
• is appending
  progressive
• have been appending
  perfect progressive
• has been appending
  perfect progressive

Past

• appended
  simple
• had appended
  perfect
• was appending
  progressive
• were appending
  progressive
• had been appending
  perfect progressive

Future

• will append
  simple
• will have appended
  perfect
• will be appending
  progressive
• will have been appending
  perfect progressive

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Etymology

Origin of append

1640–50; < Latin appendere, equivalent to ap- ap- ¹ ( def. ) + -pendere to hang (transitive)

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Explanation

To append means to add on, usually to the end of something. You might want to append a clause onto a contract if you feel something has been left unsaid in it. You’ve probably seen the word append before, at least as part of another word: appendix. An appendix is a final section appended onto a book that offers additional information or notes. You can also use append to mean to fix onto or to attach usually at the end. Sometimes you can change the meaning of a word by removing the suffix and appending another to it. You'd best not append your presentation with the remark that you actually don't know what you are talking about.

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

append appends appended appending

However, he adds that other features, like "community notes" that allow contributors to append context to a viral post, shows the platform is taking transparency seriously.

From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025

He got a historic photo of a fist in the air to append to all his campaign marketing materials.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2024

"I figured that we could append two branch tails as 'boosters' into the lipidoid to promote the delivery of mRNA," says Han.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 26, 2024

For example, you could append the statement “The continuum hypothesis is true” to the group of axioms.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 13, 2023

Bobby had refused to append his name, implying his own doubt as to the girl’s paternity.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

To which he appends, “give people money and, in economic terms, magic happens.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

Editor’s note: Seattle Times Opinion no longer appends comment threads on David Horsey’s cartoons.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2022

“We will take the complaint, but it will go to the bottom of my stack,” said Mike Filicetti, the Niagara County sheriff, who appends a Ronald Reagan quote to his emails.

From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2022

The Norfolk artist paints with watery oils, acrylics and colored ink and then appends hard-edge details that suggest vines, flowers and water droplets.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2021

Mrs. Child discreetly cites for them no author at all, and thus escapes better than the editor of the new series of "Hymns for the Ages," who boldly appends to the poem, "Milton, 1608-1674."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 by Various

He appended his name, rank, location, and battalion and brigade names.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Sharks had been swimming in the culture before that, to be sure, often with the prefix “man-eating” appended, though men eat sharks too, and way more often — so who’s the real apex predator?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025

On Friday, Chutkan took the next step, ordering unsealed the exhibits that Smith appended to his brief.

From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2024

“I have already appended my signature to it,” said majority leader Kimani Ichung’wah.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2024

And as a late afterthought, he appended: “This is not a particularly happy moment in any of our lives.”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

In the three attempted hackings identified, Transluce said it appears the agents were unable to access the data they sought, and turned to hacking techniques, appending what are called malicious payloads to their queries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Since any attempt at appending a joke to this simple recounting of facts would only dilute its crazy power, this entry is over!

From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2023

Salon ended up appending no fewer than five corrections to Kennedy’s article, and finally bowed to proliferating professional critiques of the piece by removing it from its website in 2011.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

Instead of taking away the blue check marks, Twitter on Sunday began appending a new message to profiles: “This account is verified because it’s subscribed to Twitter blue or is a legacy verified account.”

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2023

Beethoven, inspired by study of and admiration for Handel and Bach, merely had the idea of appending to a symphony something you might expect in an oratorio.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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