APPRISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apprise mean? 

• APPRISE (verb)
  The verb APPRISE has 4 senses:

1. inform (somebody) of something

2. make aware of

3. gain in value

4. increase the value of

  Familiarity information: APPRISE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPRISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they apprise    ... he / she / it apprises   
Past simple: apprised   
Past participle: apprised   
-ing form: apprising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inform (somebody) of something

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

advise; apprise; apprize; give notice; notify; send word

Context example:

I advised him that the rent was due

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

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody of something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

apprisal (informing by words)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make aware of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

apprise; apprize; instruct

Context example:

Have the students been apprised of the tuition hike?

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

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

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

direct (give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction)

brief (give essential information to someone)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Sense 3

Meaning:

Gain in value

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

appreciate; apprise; apprize; revalue

Context example:

The yen appreciated again!

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

increase (become bigger or greater in amount)

Verb group:

appreciate; apprise; apprize (increase the value of)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 4

Meaning:

Increase the value of

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

appreciate; apprise; apprize

Context example:

The Germans want to appreciate the Deutsche Mark

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

revalue (value anew)

Verb group:

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

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

He conceived that it would be fine to let that event apprise Ruth of his return.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Of all this the people are well apprised, and understand how far to carry their obstinacy, where their liberty or property is concerned.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

"But I apprised you that I was a hard man," said he, "difficult to persuade."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The affair thus determined, and Thorpe's approbation secured, Catherine only remained to be apprised of it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Their casual edging across the sidewalk to the curb, as they drew near, apprised him of discovery.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I had my own reasons for being dismayed at this apparition; too well I remembered the perfidious hints given by Mrs. Reed about my disposition, &c.; the promise pledged by Mr. Brocklehurst to apprise Miss Temple and the teachers of my vicious nature.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My father and brother had not made my marriage known to their acquaintance; because, in the very first letter I wrote to apprise them of the union—having already begun to experience extreme disgust of its consequences, and, from the family character and constitution, seeing a hideous future opening to me—I added an urgent charge to keep it secret: and very soon the infamous conduct of the wife my father had selected for me was such as to make him blush to own her as his daughter-in-law.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)