choose
/t͡ʃuz/ verb A1- To pick; to make the choice of; to select. · I chose a nice ripe apple from the fruit bowl.
- To elect. · He was chosen as president in 1990.
- To decide to act in a certain way. · I chose to walk to work today.
- To prefer; to wish; to desire.
Plural choose · He/she/it chooses · Past chose · Past participle chosen · -ing form choosing
Verb forms
- Base form
- choose
- He/she/it
- chooses
- Past
- chose
- Past participle
- chosen
- -ing form
- choosing
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
Then, being at last free to do as she chose, she ran out to the courtyard to tell the Lion that the Wicked Witch of the West had come to an end, and that they were no longer prisoners in a strange land.
On being asked how, in so short a time, he could have made a trial of him, he answered, “I do not need a trial; I know that he will be just the same as the one he chose for his companion.”
The Horse chose his earliest years and gave them his own attributes: hence every man is in his youth impetuous, headstrong, and obstinate in maintaining his own opinion.
A CRAB, forsaking the seashore, chose a neighboring green meadow as its feeding ground.
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