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ponderize en · VERB

Etymology

From ponder + -ize.

Meanings

1. (colloquial, intransitive) To ponder.
   • Well, now, just read this and then go and ponderize over it. 1914, The American Flint - Volume 6, page 42:
   • Lou's Clues props and characters include: • The Stinkin' Chair—Where Lou's buddy, Lugnut, sits and “ponderizes” 2005, Dave Oatley, 88% of Americans Are Abnormal:
2. (rare, transitive) To make weighty or ponderous.
   • An overabundance of slow, soulful numbers tends to ponderize the proceedings somewhat, but much of the singing is quite beautiful, and all of it is authentic. 1963, Saturday Review - Volume 46, page 68:
   • The sheepe are sweete, and fattest in the taile, whose weight oft ponderizes twenty pound, and many times their whole body. 1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile Into Afrique, Asia, Indies, page 150:
   • Modern Cryer cabinets are of sturdy, high grade, ponderized steel or some other rust resistant metal finished in enamel, easy to clean and durable. 1948, Connecticut. Bureau of Vocational Education, A Resource Unit in Home Economics Education:

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