beponder

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɒndə(ɹ)

Verb

beponder (third-person singular simple present beponders, present participle bepondering, simple past and past participle bepondered)

(rare, archaic, transitive) To ponder over or about.
- 1911, The Book Buyer, page 221:
  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.
- 2010, JR Christopher, The Ballad of the HMS Beagle:
  The court was still, the court was quiet,
  To let their king beponder: […]

Anagrams

preboned