decide
/dɪˈsaɪd/ verb A2- To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle. · The election will be decided on foreign policies.· It was decided to meet here at midnight.
- To make a judgment, especially after deliberation. · You must decide between good and evil.· I have decided that it is healthier to walk to work.
- To cause someone to come to a decision. · Your admonition decided me against my intended course of action.
- Of a Turing machine: to return a correct answer (for some yes-or-no problem) on every possible input. · No Turing Machine can decide the halting problem.
Plural decide · He/she/it decides · Past decided · Past participle decided · -ing form deciding
Verb forms
- Base form
- decide
- He/she/it
- decides
- Past
- decided
- Past participle
- decided
- -ing form
- deciding
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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THE MICE summoned a council to decide how they might best devise means of warning themselves of the approach of their great enemy the Cat.
AT ONE TIME a very large and strong Wolf was born among the wolves, who exceeded all his fellow-wolves in strength, size, and swiftness, so that they unanimously decided to call him “Lion.” The Wolf, with a lack of sense proportioned to his enormous size, thought that they gave him this name in earnest, and, leaving his own race, consorted exclusively with the lions.
de Saint-Méran; “and where is it decided to transfer him?”
Therefore it was decided to start upon their journey the next morning, and the Woodman sharpened his axe on a green grindstone and had all his joints properly oiled.
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