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pick sides

pick sides verb: to take sides; to favour one side or viewpoint in a competition or confrontation.

Verb

pick sides (third-person singular simple present picks sides, present participle picking sides, simple past and past participle picked sides)

  1. To take sides; to favour one side or viewpoint in a competition or confrontation.
    • I refuse to argue with you, and I am not going to pick sides in this discussion.

Synonyms of pick sides

Forms of pick sides

third-person singular presentpicks sides
present participlepicking sides
past participlepicked sides
pastpicked sides

Questions about pick sides

What does pick sides mean?
Pick sides means to take sides; to favour one side or viewpoint in a competition or confrontation.
What part of speech is pick sides?
Pick sides is a verb.
What is the past tense of pick sides?
The past tense of pick sides is picked sides.

Words near pick sides in the dictionary

  1. pick packer
  2. pick packers
  3. pick quarrels
  4. pick scrape
  5. pick scrapes
  6. pick sides
  7. pick six
  8. pick sixes
  9. pick slide
  10. pick slides
  11. pick someone's brain

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