treasuring

Verb

treasure (third-person singular simple present treasures, present participle treasuring, simple past and past participle treasured)

1. (transitive) To consider to be precious; to value highly.
   • Oh, this ring is beautiful! I’ll treasure it forever.

   Synonyms:

   cherish, prize, appreciate, bedear, esteem, hold dear, think much of, value

   Antonyms:

   despise, contemn, despect, disrespect, disdain, disesteem, look down on, misrespect, scorn, spurn

2. (transitive) To store or stow in a safe place.
   • The rose-buds, withered as they were, were still treasured under his cuirass, and nearest to his heart.1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman
3. (transitive) To amass or collect together as though a treasure.
   • He seems to have carefully treasured up all the tales he heard, and he wrote and published them, under the feigned name of Gian Alesio Abbatutis, in his native dialect, not long before his death.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 243
4. (obsolete, transitive) To enrich.

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