considre

Verb

consider (third-person singular simple present considers, present participle considering, simple past and past participle considered)

1. (transitive) To think about seriously.
   • Consider that we’ve had three major events and the year has hardly begun.

   Synonyms:

   bethink, reflect, take, afterthink, agitate, call to mind, chew, chew over, chew the cud, cogitate

2. (intransitive) To think about something seriously or carefully: to deliberate.

   Synonyms:

   afterthink, agitate, bethink, call to mind, chew, chew over, chew the cud, cogitate, contemplate, deliberate

3. (transitive) To think about whether one will do (an action); to weigh as a possible course of action.
   • I’m considering going to the beach tomorrow.

   Synonyms:

   think of, bethink

4. (ditransitive) To assign some quality to.
   • Consider yourself lucky, but consider your opponent skillful.

   Synonyms:

   deem, regard, think of, account, appraise, count, esteem, see, censure, hold

5. (transitive) To look at attentively.
   • She sat there for a moment, considering him.

   Synonyms:

   regard, observe, attend, clock, give heed, heed, let in on, mark, mind, notice

6. (transitive) To take up as an example.
   • Consider a triangle having three equal sides.

   Synonyms:

   take

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