| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To think or think about carefully and at length: chew on or (over), cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, entertain, excogitate, meditate, mull, muse1, ponder, reflect, ruminate, study, think, think out, think over, think through, turn over, weigh. Idioms: cudgel one's brains, put on one's thinking cap, rack one's brain. See THOUGHTS. 2. To move or cause to move in circles or around an axis: circle, circumvolve, gyrate, orbit, rotate, turn, wheel. See MOVE, REPETITION.
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