Definitions for choose

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Spelling: [chooz]

IPA: /tʃuz/

Choose is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in choose (cehoos).

Definitions for choose

Idioms

1. cannot choose but, cannot do otherwise than; is or are obliged to:

Verb phrases

1. choose up, to select (players) for a contest or game: to select players for a contest or game:

verb (used with object)

1. to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference:
2. to prefer or decide (to do something):
3. to want; desire:
4. (especially in children's games) to contend with (an opponent) to decide, as by odd or even, who will do something:

verb (used without object)

1. to make a choice, or select from two or more possibilities:
2. to be inclined:
3. (especially in children's games) to decide, as by means of odd or even, who will do something:

Origin of choose

before 1000; Middle English chosen, chēsen, Old English cēosan; cognate with Gothic kiusan, Old High German kiosan (German kiesen); akin to Greek geúesthai to enjoy, Latin gustāre to taste (s

Examples for choose

House rules require an absolute majority of members voting to choose a speaker.

But, Hamlawa says, she choose to stay on the front lines instead, “I stayed with my other daughters.”

That gays (and other liberals) should choose Canadian oil because Canada “has no laws prohibiting LGBT lifestyle.”

What instinct made you choose that shade of pale green for your frock?

But death will I choose, in any shape, rather than that man.

He was accepted at both, and told me over lunch last January that he planned to choose between them.

They will choose competent and faithful representatives for every department.

If there were people in the building they did not choose to show a light.

The girls can talk quietly and confidentially, if they choose.

Each of us believes what we choose to believe, and facts have become bricks to shore up the fortress of our own biases.