deliberate
/dɪˈlɪb.ɚ.ət/ verb C2- To consider carefully; to weigh well in the mind. · It is now time for the jury to deliberate the guilt of the defendant.
- To consider the reasons for and against anything; to reflect.
He/she/it deliberates · Past deliberated · Past participle deliberated · -ing form deliberating
Verb forms
- Base form
- deliberate
- He/she/it
- deliberates
- Past
- deliberated
- Past participle
- deliberated
- -ing form
- deliberating
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“It is murder, Watson—refined, cold-blooded, deliberate murder.
We are in the presence, therefore, of a deliberate conspiracy upon the part of the two people who heard the gunshot—of the man Barker and of the woman Douglas.
In the latter was a sawed-off shotgun; so he came with the deliberate purpose of crime.
Again, it is absurd to suppose that any sane man would carry out a deliberate crime under the very eyes, as it were, of a third person, who was sure to betray him.
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