(~s, deciding, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~ to do something, you choose to do it, usually after you have thought carefully about the other possibilities.
She ~d to do a secretarial course...
He has ~d that he doesn’t want to embarrass the movement and will therefore step down...
The house needed totally rebuilding, so we ~d against buying it...
I had a cold and couldn’t ~ whether to go to work or not...
Think about it very carefully before you ~.
VERB: V to-inf, V that, V against/in favour of n/-ing, V wh, V
2.
If a person or group of people ~s something, they choose what something should be like or how a particular problem should be solved.
She was still young, he said, and that would be taken into account when deciding her sentence...
VERB: V n
3.
If an event or fact ~s something, it makes it certain that a particular choice will be made or that there will be a particular result.
The goal that ~d the match came just before the interval...
The results will ~ if he will win a place at a good university...
Luck is certainly one deciding factor.
VERB: V n, V wh, V-ing
4.
If you ~ that something is true, you form that opinion about it after considering the facts.
He ~d Franklin must be suffering from a bad cold...
I couldn’t ~ whether he was incredibly brave or just insane.
VERB: V that, V wh
5.
If something ~s you to do something, it is the reason that causes you to choose to do it.
The banning of his play ~d him to write about censorship...
I don’t know what finally ~d her, but she agreed.
VERB: V n to-inf, V n, also V n that, V n against/in favour of n/-ing