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overprizes

overprizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 overprizes

What is overprizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overprizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overprize.

Words near overprizes in the dictionary

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

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