prize
verb C2- To consider highly valuable; to esteem.
- To move with a lever; to force up or open; to prise or pry.
He/she/it prizes · Past prized · Past participle prized · -ing form prizing
Verb forms
- Base form
- prize
- He/she/it
- prizes
- Past
- prized
- Past participle
- prized
- -ing form
- prizing
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“But she must have a prize herself, you know,” said the Mouse.
Ruby Gillis smuggled three blue plums over to her during testament reading; Ella May MacPherson gave her an enormous yellow pansy cut from the covers of a floral catalogue--a species of desk decoration much prized in Avonlea school.
Josie Pye took first prize for knitted lace.
Harmon Andrews took second prize for Gravenstein apples and Mr.
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