contemplate: Bedeutung und Definitionen

To look at attentively and thoughtfully:"He stood at the hall closet, contemplating his hats"(E. Annie Proulx).

To consider carefully and at length; meditate on or ponder: contemplated the problem from all sides; contemplated the mysteries of the atom.

To have in mind as an intention or possibility: contemplate marriage; forced by the accident to contemplate retirement.