beponder

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verb

To ponder over or about.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person beponders · participle present bepondering · participle past bepondered · past bepondered

  1. archaicraretransitiveTo ponder over or about.

    The court was still, the court was quiet, To let their king beponder: […]

    2010, JR Christopher, The Ballad of the HMS Beagle
    1 more example

    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.

    1911, The Book Buyer, page 221

Origin

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

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with beponder

wandercondorpondertransponderyondersquanderconderGondarsonderGonderabsconderoverponderpreponder
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Anagrams

preboned
Cite this entry
APA

beponder. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beponder

MLA

“beponder.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beponder. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “beponder,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beponder.

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