cogitate

verbs

consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind
cogitate
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cogitative
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cogitation
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cogitation
is a type of (narrower)
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"
chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over
use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
"I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere"
cerebrate, cogitate, think
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cogitative
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cogitative
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cogitation