APPOSE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they appose ... he / she / it apposes

Past simple: apposed

Past participle: apposed

-ing form: apposing

Meaning:

Place side by side or in close proximity

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "appose" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

apposable (capable of being placed opposite to something)

apposition (the act of positioning close together (or side by side))

appositive (relating to or being in apposition)