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ponderizing

ponderizing is the present participle and gerund of ponderize.

Meaning of 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
  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

Questions about ponderizing

What is ponderizing the present participle and gerund of?
Ponderizing is the present participle and gerund of ponderize.

Words near ponderizing in the dictionary

  1. ponderingly
  2. ponderings
  3. ponderize
  4. ponderized
  5. ponderizes
  6. ponderizing
  7. ponderment
  8. pondermotive
  9. ponderomotive
  10. ponderomotively
  11. ponderosa

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