THINK OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does think over mean? 

• THINK OVER (verb)
  The verb THINK OVER has 1 sense:

1. reflect deeply on a subject

  Familiarity information: THINK OVER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THINK OVER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reflect deeply on a subject

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

chew over; contemplate; excogitate; meditate; mull; mull over; muse; ponder; reflect; ruminate; speculate; think over

Context example:

The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate

Hypernyms (to "think over" is one way to...):

cerebrate; cogitate; think (use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "think over"):

premeditate (think or reflect beforehand or in advance)

theologise; theologize (make theoretical speculations about theology or discuss theological subjects)

introspect (reflect on one's own thoughts and feelings)

bethink (consider or ponder something carefully)

cogitate (consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind)

question; wonder (place in doubt or express doubtful speculation)

puzzle (be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide)

consider; study (give careful consideration to)

Sentence frames:

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 Context examples 

Go up to your own room; think over all I have said, and, Jane, cast a glance on my sufferings—think of me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Anne went home to think over all that she had heard.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I should like to think over the matter a little now.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan of campaign.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Think over Mother's preachment, act upon it if it seems good, and God bless you all.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I give you my word that I did not so much as lay a stripe upon his fool's back, but after speaking with him, and telling him how needful the money was to me, I left him for the night to think over the matter in my dungeon.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you asked for a raise earlier in the month and management had to think over your request, you will likely hear the results either on March 20, when Mars conjuncts Jupiter, or near the new moon on March 24.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

One morning, about this time, Fanny having now been nearly four weeks from Mansfield, a point which she never failed to think over and calculate every day, as she and Susan were preparing to remove, as usual, upstairs, they were stopped by the knock of a visitor, whom they felt they could not avoid, from Rebecca's alertness in going to the door, a duty which always interested her beyond any other.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

They were interrupted by the entrance of Margaret; and Elinor was then at liberty to think over the representations of her mother, to acknowledge the probability of many, and hope for the justice of all.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

When, however, the conviction had come to me that I was helpless I sat down quietly—as quietly as I have ever done anything in my life—and began to think over what was best to be done.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)