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pride/pried

pride (prīd)

Noun

    • A sense of one's own proper dignity or value; self-respect.
    • Pleasure or satisfaction taken in an achievement, possession, or association: parental pride.
    • Arrogant or disdainful conduct or treatment; haughtiness.
    • A cause or source of pleasure or satisfaction; the best of a group or class: These soldiers were their country's pride.
    • An excessively high opinion of oneself; conceit.

Verb. Transitive prid·ed, prid·ing, prides.

    • To indulge (oneself) in a feeling of pleasure or satisfaction: I pride myself on this beautiful garden.

pried (prīd)

Verb

    • Past tense and past participle of pry.

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