appropriate

appropriate has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 11.

Definitions

• a.. Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
• v. t.. To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
• v. t.. To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; -- with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy.
• v. t.. To make suitable; to suit.
• v. t.. To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
• n.. A property; attribute.
• v.. give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause; "I will earmark this money for your research"; "She sets aside time for meditation every day"
• v.. take possession of by force, as after an invasion; "the invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants"; "The army seized the town"; "The militia captured the castle"
• a.. suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc; "a book not appropriate for children"; "a funeral conducted the appropriate solemnity"; "it seems that an apology is appropriate"