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disprize

disprize verb: to depreciate.

Verb

disprize (third-person singular simple present disprizes, present participle disprizing, simple past and past participle disprized)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To depreciate.
    • Dishevel sweet thy yellow hair, / Whose ray does burnish'd gold disprize.a. 1687, Charles Cotton, Ode to Lydia

Forms of disprize

third-person singular presentdisprizes
present participledisprizing
past participledisprized
pastdisprized

Origin of disprize

From dis- + prize. Doublet of dispraise.

Questions about disprize

What does disprize mean?
Disprize means to depreciate.
What part of speech is disprize?
Disprize is a verb.
What is the past tense of disprize?
The past tense of disprize is disprized.

Words near disprize in the dictionary

  1. disprivacied
  2. disprivilege
  3. disprivileged
  4. disprivileges
  5. disprivileging
  6. disprize
  7. disprized
  8. disprizes
  9. disprizing
  10. disprobative
  11. disprofess

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