(~s, ~ring, ~red)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
If you ~ someone or something, you like that person or thing better than another, and so you are more likely to choose them if there is a choice.
Does he ~ a particular sort of music?...
I became a teacher because I ~red books and people to politics...
I ~ to go on self-catering holidays...
I would ~ him to be with us next season...
Bob ~s making original pieces rather than reproductions...
The woodwork’s green now. I ~red it blue...
Her own ~red methods of exercise are hiking and long cycle rides.
VERB: no cont, V n, V n to n, V to-inf, V n to-inf, V -ing, V n adj, V-ed, also V that