Definition of Decide

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Decide

To cut off; to separate.

To bring to a termination, as a question, controversy, struggle, by giving the victory to one side or party; to render judgment concerning; to determine; to settle.

To determine; to form a definite opinion; to come to a conclusion; to give decision; as, the court decided in favor of the defendant.

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Decide Quotations

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother Teresa

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin Franklin

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
Bill Cosby

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
Sigmund Freud

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
Sigmund Freud

Decide Translations

decide in Afrikaans is besluit
decide in Danish is beslutte
decide in Dutch is besluiten, beslissen, uitmaken
decide in German is beschliesse, entscheiden, entscheiden
decide in Latin is constituo, reor, statuo, exigo
decide in Norwegian is bestemme
decide in Portuguese is decida
decide in Spanish is decidir, decidirse

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