come by
coming by
comprehend
consider
- acknowledge
- allow for
- assent to
- chew over
- cogitate
- concede
- consult
- contemplate
- deal with
- deliberate
- dream of
- envisage
- examine
- excogitate
- favor
- flirt with
- grant
- inspect
- keep in mind
- look at
- meditate
- mull over
- muse
- perpend
- ponder
- provide for
- reason
- reckon with
- recognize
- reflect
- regard
- revolve
- ruminate
- scan
- scrutinize
- see
- see about
- speculate
- study
- subscribe to
- take into account
- take under advisement
- take up
- think out
- think over
- toss around
contemplate
Word Origin & History
Old English seon "to see, look, behold; observe, perceive, understand; experience, visit, inspect" (contracted class V strong verb; past tense seah, past participle sewen), from Proto-Germanic *sekhwanan (cf. Old Saxon, Old High German sehan, Middle High German, German sehen, Old Frisian sia, Middle Dutch sien, Old Norse sja, Gothic saihwan), from PIE root *sekw- (2) "to see," which is probably identical with *sekw- (1) "to follow" (see sequel), a root which produced words for "say" in Greek and Latin, and also words for "follow" (cf. Latin sequor), but "opinions differ in regard to the semantic starting-point and sequences" [Buck]. Thus see might originally mean "follow with the eyes."
Used in Middle English to mean "behold in the imagination or in a dream" (c.1200), "to recognize the force of (a demonstration)," also c.1200. Sense of "escort" (e.g. to see someone home) first recorded 1607 in Shakespeare. Meaning "to receive as a visitor" is attested from c.1500. Gambling sense of "equal a bet" is from 1590s. See you as a casual farewell first attested 1891. Let me see as a pausing statement is recorded from 1510s. To have seen everything as a hyperbolic expression of astonishment is from 1957.
Example Sentences forsee
Take it at once, and tell her I shall be up to see her presently.
Here we see but a few of the last links, and those imperfectly.
I confess, Eudora, it pained me to see you listen to his idle flattery.
I see some man in the East has a fad for breaking the ice in the river and going swimming.
If it may be avoided, I will not see the whole of your youth consumed in anxious watchings.
I can show you people all right that won't ask to see your union card.
At length the servant returned, saying his master was now ready to see them.
"Oh, I see," said the younger Milbrey—his face clearing all at once.
I could see she was annoyed and a little worried, because he was past taking notice.
See how their shining hair sparkles on the surface of the waters!