ponderize

Verb

ponderize (third-person singular simple present ponderizes, present participle ponderizing, simple past and past participle ponderized)

1. (colloquial, intransitive) To ponder.
   • Well, now, just read this and then go and ponderize over it.1914, The American Flint - Volume 6, page 42
   • Lou's Clues props and characters include: • The Stinkin' Chair—Where Lou's buddy, Lugnut, sits and “ponderizes”2005, Dave Oatley, 88% of Americans Are Abnormal
2. (rare, transitive) To make weighty or ponderous.
   • The sheepe are sweete, and fattest in the taile, whose weight oft ponderizes twenty pound, and many times their whole body.1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile Into Afrique, Asia, Indies, page 150
   • Modern Cryer cabinets are of sturdy, high grade, ponderized steel or some other rust resistant metal finished in enamel, easy to clean and durable.1948, Connecticut. Bureau of Vocational Education, A Resource Unit in Home Economics Education