unchoose

verb

Etymology

From un- + choose.

  1. inherited from *ǵéwseti
  2. inherited from *keusaną
  3. inherited from *keusan
  4. inherited from ċēosan
  5. inherited from cheosen
  6. prefixed as unchoose — “un + choose

Definitions

  1. To not choose

    To not choose; choose against; deselect; reject.

    • At the point where a goal is perceived as too easy to be worth investment of effort, effort is reduced as we “unchoose” the goal.
    • One glory of a family is you'd never choose your kin and can't unchoose your daddy's hazel eyes — no more than you could unchoose your hand.
    • In other words, if the depression is a survival mechanism chosen by the woman when she was a child, then it is within her power to unchoose depression and to heal.

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