reappropriate (English, verb)
expansion: reappropriate (third-person singular simple present reappropriates, present participle reappropriating, simple past and past participle reappropriated)
Senses:
glosses: To seize and reassign.
glosses: To appropriate again.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: To reclaim a term that was previously used to disparage the reclaimers' own social group.
Forms:
form: reappropriates
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reappropriating
tags: participle
present
form: reappropriated
tags: participle
past
form: reappropriated
tags: past