Beponder

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To ponder over or about. archaic, rare, transitive

    "Professor Gran's peculiar insight into the literary mind and its curious, often repulsive, peculiarities is singularly interesting, and casts an entirely new light upon the much bepondered Rousseau."

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"Professor Gran's peculiar insight into the literary mind and its curious, often repulsive, peculiarities is singularly interesting, and casts an entirely new light upon the much bepondered Rousseau."

Etymology

From be- (“over, about”) + ponder. Compare bewonder.

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