Synonyms for meditate
verb
To muse
ponder, study, contemplate, ruminate, muse, revolve, say to oneself, reflect, view, brood over, cogitate, be in an abstraction, cherish the idea, entertain the idea, dream, mull over, be in a brown study*, chew the cud*; see also consider 3.
To think over
weigh, consider, speculate; see think 1.
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verb
To think or think about carefully and at length:
chew on (or over), cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, entertain, excogitate, mull, muse1, ponder, reflect, 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
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