rack one's brains

Strongest matches

• apply
• establish
• fixate
• focus
• intensify
• put
• settle

Strong matches

• attend
• center
• contemplate
• examine
• hammer
• meditate
• muse
• need
• peruse
• ponder
• rivet
• ruminate
• scrutinize
• set
• study
• sweat
• weigh

Weak matches

• be engrossed in
• bring to bear
• brood over
• consider closely
• crack one's brains
• direct attention
• fix attention
• focus attention
• get on the beam
• give attention
• hammer away at
• head trip
• knuckle down
• occupy thoughts
• pour it on
• put mind to
• think hard

Strongest matches

• contemplate
• deliberate
• examine
• ponder
• weigh

Strong matches

• chaw
• consider
• delay
• figure
• linger
• meditate
• moon
• procrastinate
• reflect
• review
• revolve
• ruminate
• study
• woolgather

Weak matches

• brood over
• hammer away at
• muse on
• pore over
• stew over
• sweat over
• think over
• turn over

Strong matches

• brood
• cudgel
• marvel
• muse
• ponder
• study

Weak matches

• ask oneself
• mull over
• think about
• think hard

Strong matches

• analyze
• appraise
• appreciate
• brood
• cerebrate
• cogitate
• comprehend
• conceive
• consider
• deduce
• deliberate
• estimate
• evaluate
• examine
• ideate
• imagine
• infer
• judge
• meditate
• mull
• muse
• ponder
• rationalize
• reason
• reflect
• resolve
• revolve
• ruminate
• speculate
• stew
• study
• weigh

Weak matches

• figure out
• have in mind
• intellectualize
• logicalize
• mull over
• put on one's thinking cap
• sort out
• stop to consider
• take under consideration
• turn over
• use one's head

Strongest matches

• brainstorm
• brood
• meditate
• ponder

Strong matches

• cogitate
• consider
• contemplate
• deliberate
• excogitate
• figure
• muse
• reflect
• revolve
• think
• weigh

Weak matches

• chew over
• mull over
• stew about
• turn over
• use one's head

Strongest matches

• appreciate
• consider
• figure out
• judge
• ponder
• reflect
• resolve
• speculate
• study

Strong matches

• analyze
• appraise
• brood
• cerebrate
• cogitate
• comprehend
• conceive
• deduce
• deliberate
• estimate
• evaluate
• examine
• ideate
• imagine
• infer
• meditate
• mull
• muse
• rationalize
• reason
• revolve
• ruminate
• stew
• weigh

Weak matches

• have in mind
• intellectualize
• logicalize
• mull over
• sort out
• stop to consider
• take under consideration
• turn over
• use one's head