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| Part of Speech: |
verb |
| Definition: |
think about deeply and theorize |
| Synonyms: |
beat one's brains,
brainstorm*, build castles in air, call it, call the turn, cerebrate, chew over,
cogitate,
conjecture,
consider,
contemplate,
deliberate, dope out,
dope*,
excogitate,
figure,
figure out*,
guess, guesstimate, have a hunch, hazard a guess, head trip, hypothesize, kick around,
meditate,
muse, pipe-dream, psych out,
read, read between lines,
reason,
reflect,
review,
ruminate, run it up flagpole,
scheme, size up,
study,
suppose,
surmise,
suspect, weigh,
wonder
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| Antonyms: |
ignore, neglect
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* = informal/non-formal usage
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