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appraise as in:  appraise value or worth

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    She hired a specialist to appraise the antique jewelry before selling it.
    appraise = assign a value to
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    They will appraise the business -- probably as a multiple of earnings.
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    The policeman turned to appraise his prisoner in the backseat.  (source)
    appraise = judge the character of
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    She drew back and gave him an appraising look.†  (source)
    appraising = assigning a value on or judging the worth of something
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    A measure of Owen's seriousness was that we could talk about the mothers of all our friends, and Owen could be extremely frank in his appraisal of my mother to me; he could get away with it, because I knew he wasn't joking.†  (source)
    appraisal = the process of assigning a value on or judging the worth of something; or the result of such a process
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    I don't know how much it's worth, because I never had it appraised.  (source)
    appraised = evaluated to assign a cash value
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    I fear that he does not appraise me at much.  (source)
    appraise = place a value on
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    She looked appraisingly at Regis.  (source)
    appraisingly = in the manner of someone placing a value on or judging the worth of something
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    The appraiser from Beethovenstraat was here this morning.  (source)
    appraiser = one who places a value on things
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    (She appraises HORNBECK, puzzled) I never would have expected you to write an article like this†  (source)
    appraises = places a value on or judges the worth of something
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    The first sentence was "This tome will endeavor to scrutinize, in quasi-inclusive breadth, the epistemology of ophthalmologically contrived appraisals of ocular systems and the subsequent and requisite exertions imperative for expugnation of injurious states," and as Violet read it out loud to her sister, both children felt the dread that comes when you begin a very boring and difficult book.†  (source)
    appraisals = values or worths assigned; or instances of determining values or worths
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    Streaks of light probed from room to room and dived under the chairs and tables like thieves or appraisers.†  (source)
    appraisers = people who assign values on things
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    They carried off their gifts from me-all unappreciated, unappraised.†  (source)
    unappraised = not having been assigned a value, or not having been considered as to worth
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unappraised means not and reverses the meaning of appraised. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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appraise as in:  appraise the situation

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She appraised the situation carefully before acting.
appraised = evaluate (consider in a comprehensive way)
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    I want to appraise the competition before I settle on a strategy.
    appraise = evaluate
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    "I can't imagine what became of my silver cross," she said, fingering the gold-link necklace under her mink stole as she paused to appraise the big house.  (source)
    appraise = evaluate (consider in a comprehensive way)
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    He gave his shirt another halfhearted, disgusted appraisal.  (source)
    appraisal = evaluation
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    She appraised me for a moment.  (source)
    appraised = considered in a thoughtful way
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    If one wants to appraise it, it is at once heroic and banal—but who wants to do that?  (source)
    appraise = evaluate
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    His first error had been one of appraisal: Sharks were stronger than they looked.  (source)
    appraisal = evaluation and judgment
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    Appraising myself in the mirror as I brushed my teeth, I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were Peter Van Houtens—miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around.  (source)
    Appraising = evaluating
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    looked quickly at Juana's old blue skirt, saw the tears in her shawl, appraised the green ribbon on her braids, read...  (source)
    appraised = considered in a comprehensive way
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    She was studying, with deliberate appraisal, John Holbrook's bent head and the delicate chiseled line of his profile against the firelight.  (source)
    appraisal = evaluation and judgment
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    ...every few minutes, the boy would dart a keen appraising glance at the girl...  (source)
    appraising = as if considering in a comprehensive way
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    She appraised him coolly.  (source)
    appraised = considered in a thoughtful way
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    Whenever he looked up from his plate he found the general studying him, appraising him narrowly.  (source)
    appraising = evaluating
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