Dictionary Entry
appoint
appoint is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
- 2transitive verb
To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of.
- 3transitive verb
To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.
- 4transitive verb
To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.
- 5transitive verb
To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign.
- 6transitive verb
To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed.
- 7intransitive verb
To ordain; to determine; to arrange.
- 8verb
furnish
"a beautifully appointed house"
- 9verb
create and charge with a task or function
"nominate a committee"
Synonyms
- 10verb
assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
"He was appointed deputy manager"
"She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance"
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