muse
/mjuz/ verb B2- To become lost in thought, to ponder.
- To say (something) with due consideration or thought. · For quotations using this term, see Citations:muse.
- To think on; to meditate on.
- To wonder at.
He/she/it muses · Past mused · Past participle mused · -ing form musing
Verb forms
- Base form
- muse
- He/she/it
- muses
- Past
- mused
- Past participle
- mused
- -ing form
- musing
From the library
A FARMER’S daughter was carrying her Pail of milk from the field to the farmhouse, when she fell a-musing.
In school I can look at her and muse over days departed.”
“You’d better muse over your lessons and sums,” said Marilla, concealing her delight at this development of the situation.
How often did he muse over it and pronounce the name of a dear friend—a friend lost to him forever; and on his death-bed, when the near approach of eternity seemed to have illumined his mind with supernatural light, this thought, which had until then been but a doubt, became a conviction, and his last words were, ‘Maximilian, it was Edmond Dantès!’”
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