Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To assess (something) as being valuable or admirable.

  2. (transitive)To fix the price of (something) at an artificially high level, usually by government action.

Origin

Back-formation from valorization.

Back-formation from valorization.

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Forms

valorizes, valorizing, valorized, valorized
Base formvalorize · to valorize
3rd person singularvalorizes
Present participlevalorizing
Past simplevalorized
Past participlevalorized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyvalorize
he, she, itvalorizes

Past simpleLesson

all personsvalorized

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave valorized
he, she, ithas valorized

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill valorize

Word family

3 related words
Deriveddevalorizerevalorizevalorizable

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
validityvalisevalleyA2valourvaluableB1valuation
valorize — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto