[ US /ˈtʃɛɹɪʃ/ ]
[ UK /t‍ʃˈɛɹɪʃ/ ]
VERB
  1. be fond of; be attached to
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How To Use cherish In A Sentence

  • Obama "cherishes" a trinket and a book given to him by Gordon Brown, and he worships them like tiny gods by keeping them in a little pagan altar he set up in the Oval Office. Wonkette » top
  • Inevitably, though, with 14 fewer rooms to spread out in, the Pages had to part with several cherished possessions.
  • Pity the turtles and cherish them, for they too are on the conservationist's list of vulnerable species and in danger of extinction.
  • It needs to be cherished and supported, even if this involves a certain amount of personal inconvenience.
  • Thes. 2:7 But we were gentle in your midst, as a nursing mother would cherish her own children.
  • The pressing need of our age is to found a public sphere that would cherish subjectivity, where plural experiences of cultures would correspond to diverse inner lives.
  • And the one faint hope that soothed his troubled dreams was one he dared not cherish in his hours of waking. THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
  • But if it shall be otherwise -- if they stubbornly, sullenly persist in cherishing and manifesting the spirit of treason, making their motto to read, Bound, but not broken, then let the severities of immutable justice be meted out to them: let them die the death. A Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln
  • We have also learned that many of the featured biographees order personal copies to keep as a cherished record of their accomplishments.
  • At auction, cherished memories are trashed as treasured possessions are sifted and ascribed their price in the name of the bottom line.
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