Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to overprize
Participle: overprized
Gerund: overprizing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | overprize |
| you | overprize |
| he;she;it | overprizes |
| we | overprize |
| you | overprize |
| they | overprize |
Perfect
| I | have overprized |
| you | have overprized |
| he;she;it | has overprized |
| we | have overprized |
| you | have overprized |
| they | have overprized |
Past
| I | overprized |
| you | overprized |
| he;she;it | overprized |
| we | overprized |
| you | overprized |
| they | overprized |
Pluperfect
| I | had overprized |
| you | had overprized |
| he;she;it | had overprized |
| we | had overprized |
| you | had overprized |
| they | had overprized |
Future
| I | will overprize |
| you | will overprize |
| he;she;it | will overprize |
| we | will overprize |
| you | will overprize |
| they | will overprize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have overprized |
| you | will have overprized |
| he;she;it | will have overprized |
| we | will have overprized |
| you | will have overprized |
| they | will have overprized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | overprize |
| you | overprize |
| he;she;it | overprize |
| we | overprize |
| you | overprize |
| they | overprize |
Perfect
| I | have overprized |
| you | have overprized |
| he;she;it | have overprized |
| we | have overprized |
| you | have overprized |
| they | have overprized |
Imperfect
| I | overprized |
| you | overprized |
| he;she;it | overprized |
| we | overprized |
| you | overprized |
| they | overprized |
Pluperfect
| I | had overprized |
| you | had overprized |
| he;she;it | had overprized |
| we | had overprized |
| you | had overprized |
| they | had overprized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would overprize |
| you | would overprize |
| he;she;it | would overprize |
| we | would overprize |
| you | would overprize |
| they | would overprize |
Perfect
| I | would have overprized |
| you | would have overprized |
| he;she;it | would have overprized |
| we | would have overprized |
| you | would have overprized |
| they | would have overprized |
Imperative
| you | overprize |
| we | Let's overprize |
| you | overprize |
Verbs conjugated like 'overprize'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'overprize'
overprice,
overprime,
overdrive,
overfrieze,
overgraze,
overpoise,
overpraise,
overprint,
overprune,
override,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From over- + prize. See overpraise.
Sample Sentences
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[…] 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:]
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1777, Granville Sharp, A Tract on the Law of Nature, and Principles of Action in Man, London: B. White and E. & C. Dilly, p. 120, note 42,
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A Man apt to over-prize himself, and jealous withal of contempt, of wrong, or of gross abuse, is not so easily appeased with streams of blood, as a calm and gentle spirit is with an ingenuous acknowledgment of wrongs done, or with a courteous answer for wrongs suspected.
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[Mr. Balfe] has the gift—now rare, in late days—of melody, and a certain facile humour for the stage, which can hardly be over-prized. [1862, Henry Chorley, “The Year 1838”, in Thirty Years’ Musical Recollections, volume I, London: Hurst & Blackett, pages 141–142:]
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1983, John Gardner (American writer), On Becoming a Novelist, Open Road Media, 2010, Part II,
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Another reason workshops become “workshoppy” is that often teachers slide unconsciously into overprizing the kind of narrative writing that teaches well, undervaluing and even dismissing work that does not.