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reponder

reponder verb: to ponder again.

Verb

reponder (third-person singular simple present reponders, present participle repondering, simple past and past participle repondered)

  1. To ponder again.
    • In a far more dramatic and meaningful dream sequence (the didactic tone of the first dream sequence has been earlier commented upon), he sees again, now strangely indifferent if not actively hostile, the many lovely girls who have departed from the world, and he reponders their fate and the fate of...1968, Chih-tsing Hsia, The Classic Chinese Novel: A Critical Introduction, page 287
    • What had twice been pondered then put aside is now repondered and acted upon.1981, Joseph Mileck, Hermann Hesse: Life and Art, →ISBN, page 300

Forms of reponder

third-person singular presentreponders
present participlerepondering
past participlerepondered
pastrepondered

Origin of reponder

From re- + ponder.

Questions about reponder

What does reponder mean?
Reponder means to ponder again.
What part of speech is reponder?
Reponder is a verb.
What is the past tense of reponder?
The past tense of reponder is repondered.

Words near reponder in the dictionary

  1. repolymerizations
  2. repolymerize
  3. repolymerized
  4. repolymerizes
  5. repolymerizing
  6. reponder
  7. repondered
  8. repondering
  9. reponders
  10. repone
  11. reponed

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