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overprized

overprized is the simple past and past participle of overprize.

Meaning of overprize

Verb

overprize (third-person singular simple present overprizes, present participle overprizing, simple past and past participle overprized)

  1. (transitive) To prize excessively; to overvalue.
    • […] a very pardonable facility in the Parents themselves to overprize their own Children, while thy behold them through the vapors of affection which alter the appearance […]1651, Henry Wotton, “A Surveigh of Education”, in Reliquiae Wottonianae, London: R. Marriot, page 320

Questions about overprized

What is overprized the simple past and past participle of?
Overprized is the simple past and past participle of overprize.

Words near overprized in the dictionary

  1. overprioritizes
  2. overprioritizing
  3. overprivileged
  4. overprivilegedness
  5. overprize
  6. overprized
  7. overprizes
  8. overprizing
  9. overprocess
  10. overprocessed
  11. overprocesses

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