consider
/kənˈsɪd.əɹ/ verb A2- To think about seriously. · Consider that we’ve had three major events and the year has hardly begun.· How can you know everything about everything, if you won't consider any dissent?
- To think about something seriously or carefully: to deliberate.
- To think about whether one will do (an action); to weigh as a possible course of action. · I’m considering going to the beach tomorrow.
- To assign some quality to. · Consider yourself lucky, but consider your opponent skillful.· I considered the pie undercooked.
- To look at attentively. · She sat there for a moment, considering him.
- To take up as an example. · Consider a triangle having three equal sides.
- To debate (or dispose of) a motion. · This body will now consider the proposed amendments to Section 453 of the zoning code.
- To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect. · He never seems to consider the feelings of others.
He/she/it considers · Past considered · Past participle considered · -ing form considering
Verb forms
- Base form
- consider
- He/she/it
- considers
- Past
- considered
- Past participle
- considered
- -ing form
- considering
From the library
Now, as a quarter-past one has already struck, I do not consider I have asserted too much in saying, that, in another hour and thirty minutes Mercédès will have become Madame Dantès.”
“Yes,” replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, “but _that_ was only when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.”
“Why, you know I told you,” replied Danglars, “that I considered the circumstance of his having anchored at the Island of Elba as a very suspicious circumstance.”
So they sat down to consider what they should do, and after serious thought the Scarecrow said:
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