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MAKE UP ONE'S MIND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does make up one's mind mean?
• MAKE UP ONE'S MIND (verb)
The verb MAKE UP ONE'S MIND has 1 sense:
1. reach, make, or come to a decision about something
Familiarity information: MAKE UP ONE'S MIND used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reach, make, or come to a decision about something
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
decide; determine; make up one's mind
Context example:
We finally decided after lengthy deliberations
"Make up one's mind" entails doing...:
debate; deliberate (discuss the pros and cons of an issue)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make up one's mind"):
measure; measure out; mensurate (determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of)
choose; pick out; select; take (pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives)
will (determine by choice)
seal (decide irrevocably)
purpose; resolve (reach a decision)
decree; rule (decide with authority)
orient; orientate (determine one's position with reference to another point)
adjudicate; judge; try (put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of)
govern; order; regularise; regularize; regulate (bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations)
Sentence frames:
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