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# ponder

«ponder» in Mova's school dictionary: **to think about something slowly and carefully for a long…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (ponders, pondered, pondering)

### meaning for a pupil

To ponder is to think about something slowly and carefully for a long time before deciding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ponder/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a character thinks hard before choosing, answering or acting; «ponder over» means think deeply about a problem

### examples

- I must ponder this puzzle before I answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ponder/#x1)
- She pondered the words for a long time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ponder/#x2)
- The old man pondered over the riddle until he understood it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ponder/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And when I pondered how I might know this, it was wearisome in mine eyes;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1235/)
- [I have pondered the days of old, the years of ancient times.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1309/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ponder» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ponder/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.