rice
/ɹaɪs/ verb C2- To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).
- To harvest wild rice (Zizania spp.)
- To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment. (derived from rice out)
He/she/it rices · Past riced · Past participle riced · -ing form ricing
Verb forms
- Base form
- rice
- He/she/it
- rices
- Past
- riced
- Past participle
- riced
- -ing form
- ricing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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She’s going to show me a place back in the woods where rice lilies grow.
The boys, who had to wriggle hastily down from the trees, were later; and Anne, who had not been picking gum at all but was wandering happily in the far end of the grove, waist deep among the bracken, singing softly to herself, with a wreath of rice lilies on her hair as if she were some wild divinity of the shadowy places, was latest of all.
She started with the basics: how to chop an onion, cook rice and make a simple soup.
“We need milk, bread, apples, rice and cheese,” she says.
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