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Verbs (15)

v. give careful consideration to; "consider the possibility of moving"

v. take into consideration for exemplifying purposes; "Take the case of China"; "Consider the following case"

v. show consideration for; take into account; "You must consider her age"; "The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient"

debate, deliberate, moot, turn over

v. think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind"

regard, view, see, reckon, take to be

v. deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"

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Fuzzynyms (188)

search, look

v. search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"

look

v. perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards; "She looked over the expanse of land"; "Look at your child!"; "Look--a deer in the backyard!"

peruse, examine casually

v. examine or consider with attention and in detail; "Please peruse this report at your leisure"

view

v. look at carefully; study mentally; "view a problem"

scan, examine minutely

v. examine minutely or intensely; "the surgeon scanned the X-ray"

scrutinize, take stock, size up, take a long hard look

v. to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail; "he scrutinized his likeness in the mirror"

advert, attend, pay attention, pay heed, give ear

v. give heed (to); "The children in the audience attended the recital quietly"; "She hung on his every word"; "They attended to everything he said"

turn to, think of, entertain, take into consideration, flirt with, toy with, think about

v. take into consideration, have in view; "He entertained the notion of moving to South America"

worry, brood, dwell

v. think moodily or anxiously about something

mull, meditate, ponder, contemplate, muse, reflect, ruminate, speculate, chew over, mull over, think over

v. reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"

center, centre, rivet, focus, pore, concentrate

v. direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"

throw, fox, puzzle, baffle, gravel, stupefy, stupify, perplex, mystify, confuse, confound, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, bewilder, flummox, nonplus, amaze, dumbfound, trounce

v. be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"

copy, recreate

v. make a replica of; "copy that drawing"; "re-create a picture by Rembrandt"

copy, simulate, imitate

v. reproduce someone's behavior or looks; "The mime imitated the passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older siblings"

reproduce, procreate, multiply

v. have offspring or young; "The deer in our neighborhood reproduce madly"; "The Catholic Church tells people to procreate, no matter what their economic situation may be"

regard, view, see, reckon, take to be, consider

v. deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"

figure, count, cipher, cypher, reckon, calculate, compute

v. make a mathematical calculation or computation

mull, meditate, ponder, contemplate, muse, reflect, ruminate, speculate, chew over, mull over, think over

discourse, converse

v. carry on a conversation

parley

v. discuss, as between enemies

work, cover, handle, plow, address, treat, deal with, deal in

v. deal with verbally or in some form of artistic expression; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China"

find, witness, see

v. perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results"

watch, see

v. check, try, or ascertain; "See whether it works!"

catch, watch, view, see, take in

v. see or watch; "view a show on television"; "This program will be seen all over the world"; "view an exhibition"; "Catch a show on Broadway"; "see a movie"

follow, watch, observe, keep an eye on, watch over

v. follow with the eyes or the mind; "Keep an eye on the baby, please!"; "The world is watching Sarajevo"; "She followed the men with the binoculars"

find, notice, discover, detect, observe

v. discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint"

figure, count, cipher, cypher, reckon, calculate, compute

v. make a mathematical calculation or computation

count, consider, weigh

v. show consideration for; take into account; "You must consider her age"; "The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient"

judge, pass judgment on, form an opinion of

v. form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people"

count

v. include as if by counting; "I can count my colleagues in the opposition"

admire, look up to

v. feel admiration for

revere, reverence, fear, venerate

v. regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of; "Fear God as your father"; "We venerate genius"

recognize

v. show approval or appreciation of; "My work is not recognized by anybody!"; "The best student was recognized by the Dean"

measure, value, rate, appraise, evaluate, assess, place a valuation on, place a value on

v. place a value on; judge the worth of something; "I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional"

figure, estimate, forecast, reckon, calculate, count on

v. judge to be probable

place, order, range, rate, grade, rank

v. assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"

account, calculate, keep an account of

v. keep an account of

respect, honor, honour, observe, abide by

v. show respect towards; "honor your parents!"

think, guess, suppose, imagine, reckon

v. expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up"

conjecture, speculate, suppose, theorize, theorise, hypothesize, hypothecate

v. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"

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Antonyms (7)

glance, take a look at

v. throw a glance at; take a brief look at; "She only glanced at the paper"; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting"

disregard, neglect, slight, ignore, cold-shoulder

v. have no respect for

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