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to decide

to decide

113 1.0
To cause someone to make a choice
  • verb
  • /dɪˈsaɪd/
translation icon : hacer que
  • It is difficult to decide what to do about the children.

He helped me to decide to stay the course.

Examples

  • You are the one that decides how it's going to be.

  • But now you get to decide what that means.

  • OK, let me leave that to you to decide about now.

  • Ready for the next mission, should I decide to accept it?

  • And then how did you decide how you used the fund?

  • Until when did you decide to have kids?

  • You let your child grow up to decide for themselves.

  • See, some things in life you decide, other things you discover.

  • Primarily because of the influence of his new friend, he decided to switch his major to physics.

    Academic text (2002)

  • You can decide what to have for dinner tonight.

Synonyms

to determine
vsto decide
282 3.1

To decide how something will happen or develop

causes someone to make a choice rather than shaping outcomes generally

Phrasal Verbs

to up and decide
  • Informal
1 7.8

To suddenly choose to do something without planning

How Persuasive

to persuade
472 2.7
to decide
113 1.0
to advise
414 2.2
to suggest
∞ 1.6

Surface Forms

decide infinitive
decided past
decided past participle
deciding present participle
decides third person singular

Etymology

Decide comes from Latin parts de- ('off') and caedere ('to cut'). So when something decides someone, it 'cuts off' their other options and makes them choose, which is why it means to cause a decision.