
Xem thêm: chew over, think over, meditate, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate
ponder verb
ADV. carefully, deeply, hard | (for) a moment She pondered for a moment before replying.
VERB + PONDER leave sb to He walked out of the room, leaving me to ponder what he had just said. | be forced to
PREP. about This was something I had been pondering about for some time. | on I walked up the stairs, pondering on her reaction to my news. | over I pondered hard over the reply to his letter.
v.
I mulled over the events of the afternoon
philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years
The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate