prize
verb/praɪz/
/praɪz/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they prize | /praɪz/ /praɪz/ |
| he / she / it prizes | /ˈpraɪzɪz/ /ˈpraɪzɪz/ |
| past simple prized | /praɪzd/ /praɪzd/ |
| past participle prized | /praɪzd/ /praɪzd/ |
| -ing form prizing | /ˈpraɪzɪŋ/ /ˈpraɪzɪŋ/ |
- [usually passive] to value something highly synonym treasure
- prize something an era when honesty was prized above all other virtues
- prize something for something Oil of cedarwood is highly prized for its use in perfumery.
Extra Examples- The berries are prized for their healing properties.
- The library is prized as the finest of its kind in England.
- a precious thing to be prized above all else
- two fruits that are much prized on the island
Oxford Collocations Dictionarypreposition- above
- as
- for
- …
- highly prized
- much prized
- (North American English) (also prise especially in British English)(also pry especially in North American English)to use force to separate something from something else
Word OriginMiddle English: the noun, a variant of price; the verb (originally in the sense ‘estimate the value of’) from Old French pris-, stem of preisier ‘to praise, appraise’, from late Latin pretiare, from Latin pretium ‘price’.
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