Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to rice
Participle: riced
Gerund: ricing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | rice |
| you | rice |
| he;she;it | rices |
| we | rice |
| you | rice |
| they | rice |
Perfect
| I | have riced |
| you | have riced |
| he;she;it | has riced |
| we | have riced |
| you | have riced |
| they | have riced |
Past
| I | riced |
| you | riced |
| he;she;it | riced |
| we | riced |
| you | riced |
| they | riced |
Pluperfect
| I | had riced |
| you | had riced |
| he;she;it | had riced |
| we | had riced |
| you | had riced |
| they | had riced |
Future
| I | will rice |
| you | will rice |
| he;she;it | will rice |
| we | will rice |
| you | will rice |
| they | will rice |
Future Perfect
| I | will have riced |
| you | will have riced |
| he;she;it | will have riced |
| we | will have riced |
| you | will have riced |
| they | will have riced |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | rice |
| you | rice |
| he;she;it | rice |
| we | rice |
| you | rice |
| they | rice |
Perfect
| I | have riced |
| you | have riced |
| he;she;it | have riced |
| we | have riced |
| you | have riced |
| they | have riced |
Imperfect
| I | riced |
| you | riced |
| he;she;it | riced |
| we | riced |
| you | riced |
| they | riced |
Pluperfect
| I | had riced |
| you | had riced |
| he;she;it | had riced |
| we | had riced |
| you | had riced |
| they | had riced |
Conditional
Present
| I | would rice |
| you | would rice |
| he;she;it | would rice |
| we | would rice |
| you | would rice |
| they | would rice |
Perfect
| I | would have riced |
| you | would have riced |
| he;she;it | would have riced |
| we | would have riced |
| you | would have riced |
| they | would have riced |
Imperative
| you | rice |
| we | Let's rice |
| you | rice |
Verbs conjugated like 'rice'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'rice'
dice,
grice,
ice,
nice,
price,
race,
rich,
rick,
ride,
rike,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English rys, from Old French ris, from Old Italian riso, risi, from Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza), from an Eastern Iranian language related to Middle Persian blnc (*brinǰ), Northern Kurdish riz (beyond Euphrates) and Zazaki riz. Theorized to have come to Iranian languages from Sanskrit व्रीहि (vrīhi).
2. Prior to Sanskrit, it is speculated to be possibly a borrowing from a Dravidian language (compare Proto-Dravidian *wariñci (“rice”)), or from Austroasiatic languages further east.
3. Alternatively Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza) is said to be from Hebrew אורז (órez), from South Arabian areez ultimately from Old Tamil 𑀅𑀭𑀺𑀘𑀺 (arici).
4. Doublet of arroz.
Sample Sentences
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Riced Potato. Have a flat dish and the colander hot. With a spoon, rub mashed potato through the colander on to the hot dish. [1881, Maria Parloa, Miss Parloa's New Cook Book: A Guide to Marketing and Cooking:]
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Following ricing, the potato mash proceeds to the drum drier where flaking is done. [1961, Potato Chipper, volume 21, page 88:]
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Last night I riced the potatoes and added in the cream and butter while they were hot, so today wll we have to do is add flour and roll them out. [2015, Lorna Seilstad, As Love Blooms (The Gregory Sisters Book #3): A Novel:]
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In northern Minnesota the whites have invented the verb "to rice," and speak of "ricing," i. e., harvesting the crop of wild rice. [1894, John Merle Coulter, Botanical Gazette, page 505:]
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When ricing, the Ojibway dress warmly at first; by midday they may shed some clothes as harvest toil combines with the hot sun of late summer to warm them. [1988, Thomas Vennum, Wild rice and the Ojibway people:]
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As it was, the Indian seldom bothered to harvest wild rice on public waters after opening day of the ricing season. [2002, David Laursen, A Capital Place: Reminiscences of a Sandy Lake Boyhood:]
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So far as I can make out, the idiotic function of “ricing” English brides and bridegrooms is not twenty years old. [1886 July 24, “Echoes of the Week”, in The Illustrated London News, volume 89, page 90:]
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The couple was well riced and sent on their way. [2002, Helen Argers, The Gilded Lily:]
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As the reception ended the two newlyweds were riced to death and fled into an awaiting getaway car and drove off...followed by a stream of tin cans. [2006, Timothy Lee, Billy: A Gay Trilogy:]