appraise

UK: /əˈpreɪz/ US: /əˈpreɪz/ ,(ə prāz′)

Inflections of 'appraise' (v): (⇒ conjugate)

appraises

v 3rd person singular

appraising

v pres p

appraised

v past

appraised

v past p

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

ap•praise /əˈpreɪz/   v. [~ + object] , -praised, -prais•ing. 

1. Business to determine or estimate the worth (of something), esp. its monetary value:
   The art collector appraised the painting.

ap•prais•er, n. [countable]

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

ap•praise  (ə prāz′), v.t., -praised, -prais•ing. 

1. Business to estimate the monetary value of;
   determine the worth of;
   assess:
   We had an expert appraise the house before we bought it.
2. to estimate the nature, quality, importance, etc.:
   He tried to appraise the poetry of John Updike.

• late Middle English apraysen to set a value on, probably a conflation of aprisen to apprize¹ and preisen to praise (with sense of prize²) 1400–50

ap•prais′a•ble, adj. 
ap•prais′er, n. 
ap•prais′ing•ly, adv. 
ap•prais′ive, adj. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

appraise / əˈpreɪz/ verb (transitive)

1. to assess the worth, value, or quality of
2. to make a valuation of, as for taxation purposes

Etymology: 15th Century: from Old French aprisier, from prisier to prize²

apˈpraisable adjective

apˈpraiser noun

USAGE
Appraise is sometimes wrongly used where apprise is meant: they had been apprised (not appraised) of my arrival