| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To copy (another) slavishly: echo, image, imitate, mimic, mirror, parrot, repeat. See SAME. 2. To send back the sound of: echo, rebound, reecho, repeat, resound, reverberate. See SOUNDS. 3. To think or think about carefully and at length: chew on or (over), cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, entertain, excogitate, meditate, mull, muse1, ponder, revolve, ruminate, study, think, think out, think over, think through, turn over, weigh. Idioms: cudgel one's brains, put on one's thinking cap, rack one's brain. See THOUGHTS. 4. To send back or form an image of: image, mirror. See SHOW. 5. To use the powers of the mind, as in conceiving ideas, drawing inferences, and making judgments: cerebrate, cogitate, deliberate, ratiocinate, speculate, think. Idioms: put on one's thinking cap, use one's head. See THOUGHTS.
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