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Meaning of change one's mind | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To decide differently than one had decided before.

idiomatic

Equivalents

Ελληνικά μετανιώνω
עברית החליף
Íslenska sjá sig um hönd
Italiano cambiare idea
Te Reo Māori kihirua
Português mudar de ideia
Română răzgândi
Svenska ändra sig ångra
Türkçe caymak
Tiếng Việt đổi ý

Examples

She started up the stairs, changed her mind, and turned to go back down.”
“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.”
“Of course, I was not always right. I questioned the value of Crossrail (a scheme revived by Prescott after being scrapped by the Conservatives), suggesting wrongly that it may be "doomed to hit the buffers" […]. A dozen years later, I published my book on it, extolling the line's wonders. We are all allowed to change our minds.”
“I’m looking for the ladies in this frantic sea But then I change my mind and I fall in love with me”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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