beponder
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From be- (“over, about”) + ponder. Compare bewonder.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɒndə(ɹ)
Verb[edit]
beponder (third-person singular simple present beponders, present participle bepondering, simple past and past participle bepondered)
- (rare, archaic, transitive) To ponder over or about.
- 1911, The Book Buyer, page 221:
- Professor Gran's peculiar insight into the literary mind and its curious, often repulsive, peculiarities is singularly interesting, and casts an entirely new light upon the much bepondered Rousseau.
- 2010, JR Christopher, The Ballad of the HMS Beagle:
- The court was still, the court was quiet,
To let their king beponder: […]