Thesaurus / cogitate
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Let me see; let me think, reflect, cogitate, tickle the thinker.
THE VARMINTOWEN JOHNSON
It is chiefly this class of holiday-makers that we have in our minds whilst we cogitate the hints in these pages.
The word "Coger" does not imply codger, or a drinker of cogs, but comes from cogite, to cogitate.
OLD AND NEW LONDONWALTER THORNBURY
There on the low stone wall bordering on the east the property of Captain Orrin Eldridge, he seated himself to rest and cogitate.
FAIR HARBORJOSEPH CROSBY LINCOLN
He will lift his eyebrows with a certain look of contempt, and continue to cogitate—about nothing.
He walked to and fro in his room, and cogitated as few people beside Theodore Racksole could cogitate.
THE GRAND BABYLON HOTELARNOLD BENNETT
And I wanted some time to myself, to cogitate, and to formulate some theories already budding in my brain.
THE MAN WHO FELL THROUGH THE EARTHCAROLYN WELLS
All laughed heartily at this point, and turned away, leaving Sam to bite his lips and cogitate.
THE BOBBIN BOYWILLIAM M. THAYER
Ten seconds more for another gun crew to cogitate on whether disaster hung on the dart of a firing pin.
"AND THEY THOUGHT WE WOULDN'T FIGHT"FLOYD GIBBONS
There was not much time for Kit to scratch his head and cogitate.
WORDS RELATED TO COGITATE
- ad-lib
- arrange
- blueprint
- brainstorm
- cast
- chart
- cogitate
- come up with
- concoct
- construct
- contrive
- cook up
- craft
- create
- design
- discover
- dope out
- fake it
- forge
- form
- formulate
- frame
- get off
- hatch
- head trip
- imagine
- improvise
- intrigue
- invent
- machinate
- make up
- mastermind
- plan
- play it by ear
- plot
- prepare
- project
- scheme
- shape
- spark
- think up
- throw together
- trump up
- vamp
- whip up
- work out
- ad-lib
- arrange
- blueprint
- brainstorm
- cast
- chart
- cogitate
- come up with
- concoct
- construct
- contrive
- cook up
- craft
- create
- design
- discover
- dope out
- fake it
- forge
- form
- formulate
- frame
- get off
- hatch
- head trip
- imagine
- improvise
- intrigue
- invent
- machinate
- make up
- mastermind
- plan
- play it by ear
- plot
- prepare
- project
- scheme
- shape
- spark
- think up
- throw together
- trump up
- vamp
- whip up
- work out
- apply oneself
- bone up
- brood over
- burn midnight oil
- bury oneself in
- coach
- cogitate
- consider
- crack the books
- cram
- dig
- dive into
- examine
- excogitate
- go into
- go over
- grind
- hit the books
- inquire
- learn
- learn the ropes
- meditate
- mind
- mull over
- perpend
- peruse
- plug
- plunge
- polish up
- ponder
- pore over
- read
- read up
- refresh
- think
- think out
- think over
- tutor
- weigh
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.