preponder

present singular third person preponders · participle present prepondering · participle past prepondered · past prepondered

1. To preponderate.

   The gurgling sound of the falls preponders the air.

   2019, Murli Menon, Travel Guide 2019 South East Asia, page 68

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   As the democrat preponders over the aristocrat, so oxygen prevails over iron, the power of gravity is as much greater than that of magnetism, as regular democracy is superior to haphazard aristocracy .

   1814, Simon Willard, The Columbian Union, page 76

   As it is, the embellishments preponder over constructive ability, and one sadly reflects here, more than anywhere else, how small in great, and how great in small, things the Japanese really are.

   1893 June, Robert Blum, “An Artist in Japan”, in Scribner's Magazine, volume 13, number 6, page 749

   Plaintiff has the burden of presenting a case which fairly preponders over the defendant's case.

   1949, Supreme Court, page 370

   However, research preponders towards practical applications, for example, evaluation of two advertising appeals.

   2009, K. N. Krishnaswamy, Appa Iyer Sivakumar, M. Mathirajan, Management Research Methodology

   Sometimes the thirst for pleasure predominates, then the wish to grow preponders. Back and forth we struggle, from dearth to sterility.

   2017, Traumear, Beck, page 283