Word Meanings - DECIDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To cut off; to separate. Our seat denies us traffic here; The sea, too near, decides us from the rest. Fuller. 2. To bring to a termination, as a question, controversy, struggle, by giving the victory to one side or party; to render judgment

Additional info about word: DECIDE

1. To cut off; to separate. Our seat denies us traffic here; The sea, too near, decides us from the rest. Fuller. 2. 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. So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it. 1 Kings xx. 40. The quarrel toucheth none but us alone; Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DECIDE)

• Arbitrate
• Settle
• adjust
• compose
• decide
• determine
• accommodate
• adjudicate
• Conclude
• Close
• terminate
• complete
• end
• finish
• infer
• deduce
• argue
• Fix
• Place
• settle
• fasten
• link
• locate
• attach
• consolidate
• tie
• plant
• root
• establish
• secure
• regulate
• arrange
• quiet
• allay
• still
• Milk
• fall
• subside
• lower
• calm
• acquiesce
• abate
• agree
• Tell
• Mention
• number
• enumerate
• count
• recount
• utter
• recite
• state
• narrate
• disclose
• publish
• betray
• divulge
• promulgate
• acquaint
• teach
• inform
• explain
• communicate
• report
• rehearse
• discern
• judge
• discriminate
• ascertain
• describe

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DECIDE)

• Open
• initiate
• conduct
• protract
• Hoist
• raise
• heighten
• exalt
• increase
• aggrandize
• elevate
• Rouse
• excite
• disturb
• agitate
• stir
• urge
• goad
• Silence
• hush
• suppress
• misreport
• misrepresent
• miarelate
• falsify
• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate
• free
• Suppress
• repress
• suppose
• imply
• deny
• contradict
• retract
• Recal
• stifle
• check
• swallow

Related words: (words related to DECIDE)

• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• COUNTERFLEURY
  Counterflory.
• COUNTERVIEW
  1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx.
• COUNTABLE
  Capable of being numbered.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• DISCERNANCE
  Discernment.
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• CONCLUDENCY
  Deduction from premises; inference; conclusion. Sir M. Hale.
• PUBLISH
  Etym: 1. To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict. Published was the bounty of her name. Chaucer. The unwearied sun, from day to day,
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• UNUTTERABLE
  Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.