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grize

grize is the obsolete form of grise.

Meaning of grise

Noun

grise (plural grises)

  1. (obsolete) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
    • Every grise of fortune / Is smoothed by that below.c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

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Forms of grize

pluralgrizes

Questions about grize

What is grize the obsolete form of?
Grize is the obsolete form of grise.

Words near grize in the dictionary

  1. grivnas
  2. Grix
  3. grixazone
  4. griz
  5. grizbite
  6. grize
  7. Grizebeck
  8. Grizel
  9. Grizelda
  10. grizelin
  11. grizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grize (page history and authors); grise (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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