treasure
/ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/ verb C2- To consider to be precious; to value highly. · Oh, this ring is beautiful! I’ll treasure it forever.
- To store or stow in a safe place.
- To amass or collect together as though a treasure.
He/she/it treasures · Past treasured · Past participle treasured · -ing form treasuring
Verb forms
- Base form
- treasure
- He/she/it
- treasures
- Past
- treasured
- Past participle
- treasured
- -ing form
- treasuring
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This child had taken and lost her treasured amethyst brooch and now sat there calmly reciting the details thereof without the least apparent compunction or repentance.
Diana, wilt thou give me a lock of thy jet-black tresses in parting to treasure forevermore?”
Bennet treasured up the hint, and trusted that she might soon have two daughters married; and the man whom she could not bear to speak of the day before, was now high in her good graces.
She finds Miss Pope a treasure.
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