decision
/dɪˈsɪʒn̩/ verb C2- To defeat an opponent by a decision of the judges, rather than by a knockout
He/she/it decisions · Past decisioned · Past participle decisioned · -ing form decisioning
Verb forms
- Base form
- decision
- He/she/it
- decisions
- Past
- decisioned
- Past participle
- decisioned
- -ing form
- decisioning
From the library
Noirtier, paler than even the young girl, more eager than Villefort for the decision, was watching also intently and affectionately.
“On the whole,” said Holmes, “I think that your decision is a wise one.
She was beautiful, but her beauty was of too marked and decided a character to please a fastidious taste; her hair was raven black, but its natural waves seemed somewhat rebellious; her eyes, of the same color as her hair, were surmounted by well-arched brows, whose great defect, however, consisted in an almost habitual frown, while her whole physiognomy wore that expression of firmness and decision so little in accordance with the gentler attributes of her sex—her nose was precisely what a sculptor would have chosen for a chiselled Juno.
“And is there no means of making him revoke his decision?”
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