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Definition of Decide
1. Verb. Reach, make, or come to a decision about something. "They decide to move "; "We finally decided after lengthy deliberations"
Specialized synonyms: Measure, Measure Out, Mensurate, Choose, Pick Out, Select, Take, Will, Seal, Purpose, Resolve, Decree, Rule, Orient, Orientate, Adjudicate, Judge, Try, Govern, Order, Regularise, Regularize, Regulate
Entails: Debate, Deliberate
Derivative terms: Deciding, Decision, Decisive, Determinant, Determination, Determination
2. Verb. Bring to an end; settle conclusively. "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance"
Generic synonyms: End, Terminate
Specialized synonyms: Judge, Adjust
Derivative terms: Adjudicative, Adjudicatory, Judge, Deciding, Decisive, Resolve, Settlement, Settler
3. Verb. Cause to decide. "This new development finally decided me!"
4. Verb. Influence or determine. "The vote in New Hampshire often decides the outcome of the Presidential election"
Definition of Decide
1. v. t. To cut off; to separate.
2. v. i. To determine; to form a definite opinion; to come to a conclusion; to give decision; as, the court decided in favor of the defendant.
Definition of Decide
1. Verb. (transitive) To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To make a judgment, especially after deliberation. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To cause someone to come to a decision. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Decide
1. to make a choice or judgment [v -CIDED, -CIDING, -CIDES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decide
Literary usage of Decide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"... be a final and definite survey and location of the road before an election is
held to decide whether or not the county shall ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: In the by Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Scott Eldon (1818)
"The mere Absence of Fraud does not necessarily decide upon the Validity of the
Transaction; as is proved by many Cases, ..."
3. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
"What right had I to decide, in my poor mortal ignorance of the future, that this
man, too, must escape with impunity, because he escaped me ? ..."
4. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... on the several topics, but immediately taking us up at whatever does nut appear
to be advanced in accordance with your interest, decide t lint question. ..."
5. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"SWEDEN RUSSIA AND SWEDEN FIGHT MANY WARS TO decide WHO SHALL BE THE LEADING POWER
OF NORTH-EASTERN EUROPE IN the year 1698, Tsar Peter set forth upon his ..."
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