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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

choose / choōz/ • v. (past chose / chōz/ ; past part. cho·sen / ˈchōzən/ ) [tr.] pick out or select (someone or something) as being the best or most appropriate of two or more alternatives: he chose a seat facing the door | [intr.] now it's my turn to choose. ∎ [intr.] decide on a course of action, typically after rejecting alternatives: I'll stay as long as I choose. DERIVATIVES: choos·er n.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

choose OE. ċēosan (str. vb.) = OS., OHG. kiosan, ON. kjósa, Goth. kiusan :- Gmc. *kiusan, *kaus, *kusum, *kusanaz. The IE. base *ĝeus- *ĝus- is repr. also by L. gustāre taste, gustus, Gr. geúein give a taste of.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

choose •abuse, accuse, adieux, amuse, bemuse, billets-doux, blues, booze, bruise, choose, Clews, confuse, contuse, cruise, cruse, Cruz, diffuse, do's, Druze, effuse, enthuse, excuse, fuse (US fuze), Hughes, incuse, interfuse, lose, Mahfouz, mews, misuse, muse, news, ooze, Ouse, perfuse, peruse, rhythm-and-blues, ruse, schmooze, snooze, suffuse, Toulouse, transfuse, trews, use, Vaduz, Veracruz, who's, whose, youse •Andrews •Matthews • circumfuse • Syracuse •purlieux

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