cost dear
English
Alternative forms
- cost dearly
Verb
cost dear (third-person singular simple present costs dear, present participle costing dear, simple past and past participle cost dear)
- (transitive with to) To be expensive.
- (by extension) To cause a lot of pain or suffering.
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Further reading
- “cost sb dear”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “cost dear”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “cost somebody dear dearly” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “cost somebody dear” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “to cost someone dear”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “cost someone dear”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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