recognise

[US]/'rekəɡnaɪz/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

recognise

Recognize: to identify someone or something seen before; to acknowledge the validity or legality of something; to be aware of.
Word Forms
Past Participlerecognised
Past Tenserecognised
Present Participlerecognising
Third Person Singularrecognises
Pluralrecognises

Example Sentences

In 2003, at the age of 85, Joern Utzon was recognised by his peers and awarded the prestigious Pritzker Prizer Prize, regarded as the Nobel Prize of architecture.

It is usually fairly easy to recognise the patient who presents with a few days' history of progressive sensory symptoms, flaccid tetraparesis, and areflexia, perhaps with increasing bulbar weakness.

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