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costest

costest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of cost.

costest is the second-person singular simple past indicative of cost.

Meaning of cost

Verb

cost (third-person singular simple present costs, present participle costing, simple past and past participle cost or costed)

  1. (ditransitive, transitive) To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
    • This shirt cost $50, while this was cheaper at only $30.
  2. (ditransitive, transitive) To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
    • Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives.
  3. To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
    • to do him wanton rites, which cost them woe1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
  4. To calculate or estimate a price.
    • I'd cost the repair work at a few thousand.
  5. (colloquial, transitive) To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering.
    • I can give you the names, but it'll cost you.

See all 12 meanings of cost

Origin of costest

cost + -est

Questions about costest

What is costest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Costest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of cost.

Words near costest in the dictionary

  1. costermongresses
  2. costers
  3. Costerton
  4. Costes
  5. Costessey
  6. costest
  7. costeth
  8. Costești
  9. Costeștii din Vale
  10. costful
  11. costfully

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