ponder

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Then again, I'm female and have a large chin, so maybe I'm just trying to cover. * ponder*

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  1. transitive verb To weigh in the mind with thoroughness and care.
  2. intransitive verb To reflect or consider with thoroughness and care.

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  • Then again, I'm female and have a large chin, so maybe I'm just trying to cover. * ponder* —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • When I ponder (yes, I like the word ponder) it over, if I still smoked, I'd want one of these. —  Cool Hunting
  • How we ponder, and debate, and fuss over trifles, and then plunge headlong past the big turning-points of life, without a thought of the consequences lurking round the corner. —  The Great Amulet
  • We cannot be too exemplary There is another aspect to this question which the friends should seriously ponder, and that is that, whereas organisations such as Freemasonry may have been in the past entirely free from any political taint, in the state of flux the world is in at present, and the extraordinary way in which things become corrupted and tainted by political thought and influences, there is no guarantee that such an association might not gradually or suddenly become a political instrument. —  Unfolding Destiny
  • Fetter'd by choice, like Burnell's ass, I ponder-- The flesh on this side, and the spirit yonder. —  Love's Comedy
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English ponderen, from Old French ponderer, from Latin ponderāre, from pondus, ponder-, weight; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French pondérer = Spanish Portuguese ponderar = lt. ponderare, from Latin ponderare, weigh, ponder, Middle Latin also load, from pondus (ponder-), weight, from pendere, weigh: see pendent and pound.
  2. from ponder, v.
 

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/ˈpɑndər/
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