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Appreciate   /əprˈiʃiˌeɪt/   Listen
Appreciate

verb
(past & past part. appreciated; pres. part. appreciating)
1.
Recognize with gratitude; be grateful for.
2.
Be fully aware of; realize fully.  Synonym: take account.
3.
Hold dear.  Synonyms: prize, treasure, value.
4.
Gain in value.  Synonyms: apprise, apprize, revalue.
5.
Increase the value of.  Synonyms: apprise, apprize.






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"Appreciate" Quotes from Famous Books



... sensation of walking about in an airily light suit, in glove-tight boots, without helmet or mitts. It gives him such a delicious feeling of freedom that his energy is unbounded and life is a very pleasant and easy thing. Then it is that he can turn in retrospect to the time in exile, appreciate his altered circumstances and recall the many ingenuities which were evolved to make him ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson

... not our purpose to make the reader appreciate European scenery less but American scenery more. "America first" should be our slogan, whether in regard to political relations or to travel. Many Americans do not know how to appreciate their own natural scenery. Much ...
— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand

... have it in abundance. If Hurstwood had one leaning, it was toward notabilities. He considered that, if anywhere, he belonged among them. He was too proud to toady, too keen not to strictly observe the plane he occupied when there were those present who did not appreciate him, but, in situations like the present, where he could shine as a gentleman and be received without equivocation as a friend and equal among men of known ability, he was most delighted. It was on such occasions, if ever, that ...
— Sister Carrie • Theodore Dreiser

... ultra-fine intellects, the romances where the personages of the day masqueraded under Greek or Roman or Oriental aliases, books written in a flowery language which the Cavalier did not understand, and full of allusions that were dark to him; while not to know and appreciate those master-works ...
— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon

... where many a stock company came to play in tragedy or comedy. Shakespeare's plays were the favorites of the community and Jaffray and Renestine went often to the theatre, accompanied by their two daughters, who were in their advanced school-day years and able to appreciate it. There were two little sons added to their family circle; they remained asleep in their trundle beds with old Aunt Caroline watching over them, as she had watched over the little daughters. Josiah had died right after the war was over, but he lived to see his people freed and schools opened ...
— The Little Immigrant • Eva Stern


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