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paid the ultimate price

paid the ultimate price is the simple past and past participle of pay the ultimate price.

Meaning of pay the ultimate price

Verb

pay the ultimate price (third-person singular simple present pays the ultimate price, present participle paying the ultimate price, simple past and past participle paid the ultimate price)

  1. To die as a result of a fatal choice or decision, or because of deep commitments.
    • On the East and West Coast Main Lines in the 1950s/60s, for example, we saw the extinction of intermediate stations in order to create the same sort of accelerations that IRP is now promising. Back then, the priority was faster main line services, with wayside/intermediate stations paying the...2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3

Questions about paid the ultimate price

What is paid the ultimate price the simple past and past participle of?
Paid the ultimate price is the simple past and past participle of pay the ultimate price.

Words near paid the ultimate price in the dictionary

  1. paid the freight
  2. paid the penalty
  3. paid the piper
  4. paid the price
  5. paid the rent
  6. paid the ultimate price
  7. paid through the nose
  8. paid to play
  9. paid towards
  10. paid up
  11. paid with one's life

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