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Answer for the clue "Was grateful for ", 11 letters:
appreciated
Word definitions for appreciated in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"enhanced in value," 1794; "received with gratitude," by 1831; past participle adjective from appreciate .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. giving pleasure or satisfaction [syn: gratifying , pleasing , satisfying ] fully understood or grasped; "dangers not yet appreciated"; "these apprehended truths"; "a thing comprehended is a thing known as fully as it can be known" [syn: apprehended ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 recognized as having value 2 (context of an investment English) having risen in value v (en-past of: appreciate )
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appreciate \Ap*pre"ci*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Appreciated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Appreciating .] [L. appretiatus, p. p. of appretiare to value at a price, appraise; ad + pretiare to prize, pretium price. Cf. Appraise .] 1. To set a price or value on; to estimate ...
Usage examples of appreciated.
Little could have delighted Adams more than the chance to show her the country that meant so much to him, where success had been his, where, as they both appreciated, he had helped change the course of history, and where he was still the accredited American minister, Congress having never bothered to replace him.
The last of these battles was then a recent event, it having actually been fought within the recollection of our heroine, whose notions of it, however, were so confused that she scarcely appreciated the effect her allusion might produce on her companion.
Gyles Brandreth, who has earned thousands of pounds and a reputation for wit making after-dinner speeches, appreciated my support when he seconded the Loyal Address on 15 November.
Beresford, a tall, thin, relaxed man with tufted black eyebrows, a horseshoe ring of greying hair fringing the sunburnt baldness of his head, and lively hazel eyes twiligh in the lined brown leather of his face, came along only for the peace, comfort, and food: the company of the great left him cold, a fact vastly appreciated by captain Bullen, who shared his sentiments exactly.
Dennis Hale, Head of the Armories, and Marlet half-hoped that this powerful official had heard of his patriotic deed and appreciated its import.
Wolves never Meditated, Wolves never Appreciated, Wolves never were Translated.
Much as she liked Menzies, much as she appreciated this break in the monotony, she needed to rest.
Ralph appreciated, was an attempt at mollification with perhaps a touch of coquetry.
The scene and autopsy room photographs provided to the profiler must be examined not only to confirm information presented as fact, but also to identify findings present that may not have been appreciated or described by the pathologist who performed the postmortem examination.
The only fair thing would be to leave the bets out and redeal the entire hand, a prospect not appreciated by those with good cards left to play.
The tremendous fact that all the inwrought elements and workings of our being are self retributive, their own exceeding great and sufficient good or evil, independent of external circumstances and sequences, is rarely appreciated.
It is of no use interfering with them on this point, since all things are finally appreciated at their true value, and the pride of the nobility is easily discounted when one sees them as they really are.
Meanwhile, it became clear to Shettles that until the night of their arrests, Damien and Jason had never fully appreciated the seriousness of their situation.
I particularly appreciated a story about a holy white steinbock who lives in the area, but this is not the time to tell it.
Involuntarily but unobtrusively, under cover of the little tubbed trees that hedged the terrasse apart from the square, Duchemin did likewise, and so discovered, or for the first time appreciated, the cause of the uncommonly early dusk that loured over Nant.