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choosing sides

choosing sides is the present participle and gerund of choose sides.

Meaning of choose sides

Verb

choose sides (third-person singular simple present chooses sides, present participle choosing sides, simple past chose sides, past participle chosen sides)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see choose, sides.
    • The neighbors chose sides on the zoning change.
  2. To divide a group into teams for a game or sport.
    • Maxine and Roseanne chose sides, with Maxine, the weaker of the two, getting first choice.

Questions about choosing sides

What is choosing sides the present participle and gerund of?
Choosing sides is the present participle and gerund of choose sides.

Words near choosing sides in the dictionary

  1. choosiness
  2. choosing
  3. choosing one's battles
  4. choosing one's fighter
  5. choosing out
  6. choosing sides
  7. choosing the wrong horse
  8. choosing up
  9. choosing violence
  10. choosingly
  11. choosings

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