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ponderate

ponderate verb: to have weight or influence.

Verb

ponderate (third-person singular simple present ponderates, present participle ponderating, simple past and past participle ponderated)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To have weight or influence.
  2. (archaic) To consider; to ponder.

Forms of ponderate

third-person singular presentponderates
present participleponderating
past participleponderated
pastponderated

Origin of ponderate

From Latin ponderatus.

Words formed from ponderate

Questions about ponderate

What does ponderate mean?
Ponderate means to have weight or influence.
What part of speech is ponderate?
Ponderate is a verb.
What is the past tense of ponderate?
The past tense of ponderate is ponderated.

Words near ponderate in the dictionary

  1. ponderal
  2. ponderal index
  3. ponderance
  4. ponderances
  5. ponderary
  6. ponderate
  7. ponderated
  8. ponderates
  9. ponderating
  10. ponderation
  11. ponderations

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