think through
think through verb: to fully consider, so as to understand all the consequences of.
Verb
think through (third-person singular simple present thinks through, present participle thinking through, simple past and past participle thought through)
- To fully consider, so as to understand all the consequences of.
- The fact that North America was the epicenter of the cataclysm, though acknowledged, has profound implications for our understanding of the human past that archaeologists have never thought through—in part because the scale of the cataclysm is only now beginning to be fully mapped out.2020, Cory Doctorow, Attack Surface, Tor Books, →ISBN
Forms of think through
| third-person singular present | thinks through |
|---|---|
| present participle | thinking through |
| past participle | thought through |
| past | thought through |
Questions about think through
- What does think through mean?
- Think through means to fully consider, so as to understand all the consequences of.
- What part of speech is think through?
- Think through is a verb.
- What is the past tense of think through?
- The past tense of think through is thought through.
Words near think through in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: think through (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “think through.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/think_through. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
