ponderize

present singular third person ponderizes · participle present ponderizing · participle past ponderized · past ponderized

1. colloquialintransitiveTo ponder.

   Well, now, just read this and then go and ponderize over it.

   1914, The American Flint - Volume 6, page 42

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   Lou's Clues props and characters include: • The Stinkin' Chair—Where Lou's buddy, Lugnut, sits and “ponderizes”

   2005, Dave Oatley, 88% of Americans Are Abnormal

2. raretransitiveTo make weighty or ponderous.

   The sheepe are sweete, and fattest in the taile, whose weight oft ponderizes twenty pound, and many times their whole body.

   1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile Into Afrique, Asia, Indies, page 150

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   Modern Cryer cabinets are of sturdy, high grade, ponderized steel or some other rust resistant metal finished in enamel, easy to clean and durable.

   1948, Connecticut. Bureau of Vocational Education, A Resource Unit in Home Economics Education

   An overabundance of slow, soulful numbers tends to ponderize the proceedings somewhat, but much of the singing is quite beautiful, and all of it is authentic.

   1963, Saturday Review - Volume 46, page 68