chew over

chew over
verb
reflect deeply on a subject (Freq. 1)
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I mulled over the events of the afternoon

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philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years

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The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate

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• Derivationally related forms:
• Hypernyms: ↑think, ↑cogitate, ↑cerebrate
• Hyponyms:
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s PP

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Somebody ——s something

 (for: ↑think over)
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Somebody ——s something

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transitive verb
: to meditate on : think about reflectively

likes to chew over some of the basic problems of our lives — Lewis Mumford

have in the last decades chewed over Plato and Bacon and Freud — J.M.Barzun

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ˈchew over [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they chew over he/she/it chews over present participle chewing over past tense chewed over past participle chewed over] informal phrasal verb
to think about something carefully or discuss it carefully with other people before making a decision about it

Officials meet regularly to chew over the future of the company.

Thesaurus: to discuss somethingsynonym to think carefully or a lot about thingssynonym
Main entry: chew

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chew over [phrasal verb]
chew (something) over or chew over (something) informal : to think about (something)

He chewed the problem over in his mind.

Chew it over for a while before you decide.

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Main Entry: ↑chew

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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