"cost dear" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: costs dear [present, singular, third-person], costing dear [participle, present], cost dear [participle, past], cost dear [past], cost dearly [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-verb|cost<,,cost> dear}} cost dear (third-person singular simple present costs dear, present participle costing dear, simple past and past participle cost dear)
  1. To be expensive. [with to ‘someone’]
    Sense id: en-cost_dear-en-verb-FegxsxaQ
  2. (by extension) To cause a lot of pain or suffering. Tags: broadly Translations (Translations): käydä kalliiksi (jollekulle) (Finnish), coûter cher (French), drogo kosztować [imperfective] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-cost_dear-en-verb-U5bRWnM2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 75 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 19 81 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 14 86 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 9 91 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 9 91 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 15 85 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of 'Translations': 0 100
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