All 7 Uses
appropriate
in
The Pianist
(Edited)
- Jews were to do two years' labour in concentration camps where we would receive 'appropriate social education', to cure us of being 'parasites on the healthy organism of the Aryan peoples'.
Chpt 5 *appropriate = suitable (fitting)
- The Jews who were receiving 'appropriate social education' there stood up to their waists in water for days on end, laying improved drainage systems, and were given a hundred grams of bread and a plate of thin soup a day to keep them going.
Chpt 5
- In exactly the same way, Germany shifted the borders of the European countries it had subdued, appropriating province after province;
Chpt 6 *appropriating = taking (seizing)
- It forbids people to practise their religion, the young are brought up godless, the Church is opposed and its property appropriated, anyone who thinks differently is terrorized, the free human nature of the German people is debased -and they are turned into terrified slaves.
Chpt P.S.appropriated = taken (seized)
- Such an outcry over other people's crimes is truly ludicrous — as if the enemy didn't know about the art treasures we've appropriated and exported from Poland, or those we have destroyed in Russia.
Chpt P.S.appropriated = taken
- Earlier on the German commissariat had appropriated supplies of hay there which belonged to the Polish army.
Chpt Epil.appropriated = taken (seized)
- My father, who was then officer in charge of the sporting facilities of the city of Warsaw appropriated by the Wehrmacht, protected him by giving him work at his office under the false name of "Cichocki".
Chpt Epil.appropriated = taken
Definitions:
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(1)
(appropriate as in: it is appropriate) suitable (fitting) for a particular situation
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(2)
(appropriate as in: appropriate from their culture) to take without asking -- often without right
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(3)
(appropriate as in: Congress will appropriate funds) to set aside for a particular use
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)