Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To make a fresh appraisal or evaluation of.
Wiktionary
- v. appraise again
WordNet 3.0
- v. appraise anew
Etymologies
- From re- + appraise. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Why isn't the Obama team waiting until it has been able to "reappraise" the war effort and figure out what, if anything, would actually work before doubling the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan?”
“If there's a big swing down, we need to fundamentally reappraise the model.”
“I can't wait to reappraise it again but I already know it's an old friend I'm happy to visit with.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Giltz: DVDs: Finally, The Best Comedy Duo Of All Time Gets Their Due
“It also argues that demonstrating an imported origin would compel "international organizations to reappraise their procedures.”
USA Today: Study suggests U.N. force brought cholera to Haiti
“Some states reappraise property values each year, while others do it once every several years.”
“I think the ridiculous price of ammo these days has made many nimrods reappraise that practice.”
“Techniques that help patients "emotionally reappraise" their pain rather than ignore it are particularly helpful when patients are afraid they will suffer further injury and become sedentary, experts say.”
“I think we as a country really need to reappraise our priorities, when some dipstick who kicks a ball around, gets paid more and is held in higher esteem than people who keep the nation safe, be that Nurses/Police/Ambulance etc etc”
“Films like Performance, The Man Who Fell To Earth and Walkabout (Jenny Agutter and other guests attend this Saturday's screening) still stir the senses with their cubist plotting, evocative imagery and radical subject matter, but this retrospective offers the chance to reappraise overlooked works like Eureka (surely the model for There Will Be Blood) or off-the-rails Dennis Potter collaboration Track 29.”
“Goldman's partner, Highgate Holdings, helped raise the hotel's occupancy rates, and by 2006 Goldman was able to reappraise the building for $594 million, more than double Goldman's purchase price.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘reappraise’.
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Do That Again! ~~ "Re-verbs"
List of verbs that begin with re-, meaning to repeat a specific action or process - reappraise, for example.
I'm also looking for words like repeat, replenish and rescind whose roots d...repeat, rescind, reappraise, refinish, restripe, reapply, resupply, refurbish, reposition, reoffend, redistribute, recoat and 202 more...
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 more...
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General
attain, stretch, lever, flock, fraught, taunt, dub, deceive, toss, sentient, stale, brew and 52 more...
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