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change one's mind

change one's mind verb: to decide differently than one had decided before.

Verb

change one's mind (third-person singular simple present changes one's mind, present participle changing one's mind, simple past and past participle changed one's mind)

  1. (idiomatic) To decide differently than one had decided before.
    • What about the love we made so sweet? / Arе you sure you wanna go? (Are you sure?) / Think about it, baby, bеcause I know / I know that you wanna, you wanna change your mind1982, Johnnie Taylor, “What About My Love”, in Just Ain't Good Enough
    • So don’t necessarily assume that something has changed if I appear to have changed my mind, sometimes my mind is all that’s changed.2006 Baggs, Amanda, Changes in Self-Awareness Over Time, Disclaimer on Assumptions, [http://] ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?page_id=294 May 2006
    Synonyms:
    backtrack, budge

change one's mind meaning in Arabic, Thai and Vietnamese

change one's mind in Arabic

to decide differently than one had decided before
غَيَّرَ رَأْيَهُ ḡayyara raʔyahu

change one's mind in Thai

to decide differently than one had decided before
เปลี่ยนใจ bplìian-jai

change one's mind in Vietnamese

to decide differently than one had decided before
đổi ý, thay đổi ý định

Synonyms of change one's mind

Forms of change one's mind

third-person singular presentchanges one's mind
present participlechanging one's mind
past participlechanged one's mind
pastchanged one's mind

Questions about change one's mind

What does change one's mind mean?
Change one's mind means to decide differently than one had decided before.
What is change one's mind in Arabic?
Change one's mind in Arabic is غَيَّرَ رَأْيَهُ (ḡayyara raʔyahu). See Change one's mind meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is change one's mind?
Change one's mind is a verb.
What is the past tense of change one's mind?
The past tense of change one's mind is changed one's mind.

Words near change one's mind in the dictionary

  1. change of tact
  2. change of the guard
  3. change of tune
  4. change of venue
  5. change one's battery
  6. change one's mind
  7. change one's spots
  8. change one's story
  9. change one's tune
  10. change one's ways
  11. change oneself

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