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Definition of "appose" [ap•pose]

  • To place in proximity; juxtapose. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "appose" in a sentence
  • "Also, people believe that the one person (or nation) can increase his wealth only by taking wealth from others, so they appose free trade and most free market ideas."
  • "What I don't get is those people who appose abortion, many of them also appose the health care initiative."
  • "Those senators who appose him should be fired or retired or both."