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APPRECIATE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Increase the value of

Example:

The Germans want to appreciate the Deutsche Mark

Synonyms:

appreciate; apprise; apprize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

revalue (value anew)

Verb group:

appreciate; apprise; apprize; revalue (gain in value)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

depreciate (lower the value of something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Gain in value

Example:

The yen appreciated again!

Synonyms:

appreciate; apprise; apprize; revalue

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

increase (become bigger or greater in amount)

Verb group:

appreciate; apprise; apprize (increase the value of)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Antonym:

depreciate (lose in value)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Be fully aware of; realize fully

Example:

Do you appreciate the full meaning of this letter?

Synonyms:

appreciate; take account

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

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

realise; realize; see; understand (perceive (an idea or situation) mentally)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

appreciator (a person who is fully aware of something and understands it)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Recognize with gratitude; be grateful for

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

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

acknowledge; recognise; recognize (express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

appreciative (feeling or expressive of gratitude)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Hold dear

Example:

I prize these old photographs

Synonyms:

appreciate; prize; treasure; value

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

consider; reckon; regard; see; view (deem to be)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "appreciate"):

do justice (show due and full appreciation)

recognise; recognize (show approval or appreciation of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue appreciate the movie

Derivation:

appreciative (having or showing appreciation or a favorable critical judgment or opinion)

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 Context examples: 

Also, he appreciated the power with which they administered the law.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

What could I do but tell Miss Mills, with grateful looks and fervent words, how much I appreciated her good offices, and what an inestimable value I set upon her friendship!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least, and for a minute Amy was sorry she had done it, feeling that virtue was not always its own reward.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Still she had her merits; and I was disposed to appreciate all that was good in her to the utmost.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

To lie in wait for me now would mean that the creature had appreciated what had happened to me, and this in turn would argue some power connecting cause and effect.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You do not deserve the office, if you cannot appreciate the talents of your company a little better.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The poor soul's body will enjoy the relief even if his mind cannot appreciate it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And now I had a view of all those points of etiquette and curious survivals of custom which are so recent, that we have not yet appreciated that they may some day be as interesting to the social historian as they then were to the sportsman.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She saw that there had been bad habits; that Sunday travelling had been a common thing; that there had been a period of his life (and probably not a short one) when he had been, at least, careless in all serious matters; and, though he might now think very differently, who could answer for the true sentiments of a clever, cautious man, grown old enough to appreciate a fair character?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

You have been tutored and refined by books and retirement from the world, and you are therefore somewhat fastidious; but this only renders you the more fit to appreciate the extraordinary merits of this wonderful man.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)