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valorizing

valorizing is the present participle and gerund of valorize.

Meaning of valorize

Verb

valorize (third-person singular simple present valorizes, present participle valorizing, simple past and past participle valorized)

  1. (transitive) To assess (something) as being valuable or admirable.
    • […]noting his tendency “to valorise my father and, I'm afraid, to demonise her because of some of the tendencies she had: she was very harsh. That was a faint undertone to my 'idyllic' childhood, I suppose.”2001 May 12, Robert Potts, quoting Paul Muldoon, “The poet at play”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  2. (transitive) To fix the price of (something) at an artificially high level, usually by government action.

Questions about valorizing

What is valorizing the present participle and gerund of?
Valorizing is the present participle and gerund of valorize.

Words near valorizing in the dictionary

  1. valorization
  2. valorizations
  3. valorize
  4. valorized
  5. valorizes
  6. valorizing
  7. valorless
  8. valorous
  9. valorously
  10. valorousness
  11. valors

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