Definitions for chooses

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chooses choose

Spelling: [chooz]

IPA: /tʃuz/

Chooses is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in chooses (cehooss).

Definitions for chooses

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 chooses

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 chooses

Very well, then, I will buy it for whatever he chooses to ask!

Milly's at home again; let Ned return to her, if he chooses.

His first language was Russian, then he learned Swedish, but chooses to perform in monosyllabic broken English.

He chooses tools to assist, not strong individualities to oppose, him.

Normally, she says, she chooses whatever is most comfortable for her.

You wouldn't have him give information about me to any man who chooses to ask for it?

Without much of a pause, Lewis chooses to drop the charges against this man.

Anyone else can demonstrate it who chooses to make the experiment.

But there has always been and there will always be a segment of society that chooses or is indoctrinated to ignore these rules.

When he chooses to cap a climactic chase seen with yet another baffling fall, we feel cheated.