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beponder

beponder verb: to ponder over or about.

Verb

beponder (third-person singular simple present beponders, present participle bepondering, simple past and past participle bepondered)

  1. (archaic, rare, transitive) To ponder over or about.
    • 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.1911, The Book Buyer, page 221
    • The court was still, the court was quiet,
      To let their king beponder: […]2010, JR Christopher, The Ballad of the HMS Beagle

Forms of beponder

third-person singular presentbeponders
present participlebepondering
past participlebepondered
pastbepondered

Origin of beponder

From be- (“over, about”) + ponder. Compare bewonder.

Words that rhyme with beponder

Questions about beponder

What does beponder mean?
Beponder means to ponder over or about.
What part of speech is beponder?
Beponder is a verb.
What is the past tense of beponder?
The past tense of beponder is bepondered.

Words near beponder in the dictionary

  1. bepommeled
  2. bepommeling
  3. bepommelled
  4. bepommelling
  5. bepommels
  6. beponder
  7. bepondered
  8. bepotastine
  9. bepowder
  10. bepowdered
  11. bepowdering

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