different between appraise vs upraise

English

Alternative forms

• apprize (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p?e?z/
• Rhymes: -e?z
• Hyphenation: ap?praise

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French aprisier (“apraise, set a price on”) (compare modern French apprécier), from Late Latin appretiare, from ad- + Latin pretium (“price, value”) (English precious), from which also appreciate, a doublet.

Verb

appraise (third-person singular simple present appraises, present participle appraising, simple past and past participle appraised)

1. (transitive) To determine the value or worth of something, particularly as a person appointed for this purpose.

2. (transitive) To consider comprehensively.
3. (transitive) To judge the performance of someone, especially a worker.

4. (transitive) To estimate; to conjecture.
5. (transitive) To praise; to commend.

Derived terms

Related terms

• appreciate
• precious

Translations

Etymology 2

Form of apprise in use since 1706 but considered incorrect by some.

Verb

appraise (third-person singular simple present appraises, present participle appraising, simple past and past participle appraised)

1. (transitive, proscribed) To apprise, inform.

English

Etymology

From up- +? raise.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?z

Verb

upraise (third-person singular simple present upraises, present participle upraising, simple past and past participle upraised)

1. (archaic) To raise something up; to elevate.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:

     So fell those two in spight of both their prydes, / But Scudamour himselfe did soone vprayse, / And mounting light his foe for lying long vpbrayes.

2. (archaic) To move something upright; to erect.

Anagrams

• Perusia, Piraeus, Piræus, raise up, spuriae