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chuse

chuse is the archaic spelling of choose.

Meaning of choose

Verb

choose (third-person singular simple present chooses, present participle choosing, simple past chose or (nonstandard) choosed, past participle chosen or (nonstandard) choosed or (now colloquial) chose)

  1. To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
    • I chose a nice ripe apple from the fruit bowl.
  2. To elect.
    • He was chosen as president in 1990.
  3. To decide to act in a certain way.
    • I chose to walk to work today.
  4. To prefer; to wish; to desire.
    • The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment.1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC

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Forms of chuse

third-person singular presentchuses
present participlechusing
present participlechuseing
pastchose
past participlechosen

Words formed from chuse

Questions about chuse

What is chuse the archaic spelling of?
Chuse is the archaic spelling of choose.

Words near chuse in the dictionary

  1. Churubusco
  2. churus
  3. Churwell
  4. CHUs
  5. Chusan
  6. chuse
  7. chused
  8. chuseing
  9. Chuseok
  10. chuser
  11. chuserel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chuse (page history and authors); choose (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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