verb
- Recognize with gratitude; be grateful for.
- synonyms: appreciate
- Be fully aware of; realize fully.
- usage: "Do you appreciate the full meaning of this letter"
- synonyms: appreciate, take account
- Hold dear.
- usage: "I prize these old photographs"
- synonyms: prize, value, treasure, appreciate
- Gain in value.
- usage: "The yen appreciated again"
- synonyms: appreciate, apprize, apprise, revalue
- Increase the value of.
- usage: "The Germans want to appreciate the Deutsche Mark"
- synonyms: appreciate, apprize, apprise
adjective
- Fully understood or grasped.
- usage: "dangers not yet appreciated"; "these apprehended truths"; "a thing comprehended is a thing known as fully as it can be known"
- synonyms: apprehended, comprehended
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