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{
"term": "contemplate",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "contemplate",
"heSheIt": "contemplates"
},
"pastSimple": "contemplated",
"pastParticiple": "contemplated",
"ingForm": "contemplating"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to think about whether you should do something, or how you should do something",
"sensetop": "contemplate somethingcontemplate doing somethingcontemplate how/what, etc…",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "You're too young to be contemplating retirement.",
"contextForm": "contemplate something"
},
{
"text": "I have never contemplated living abroad.",
"contextForm": "contemplate doing something"
},
{
"text": "He continued while she contemplated how to answer.",
"contextForm": "contemplate how/what, etc…"
},
{
"text": "Are you willing to contemplate retraining?"
},
{
"text": "He was very depressed and even contemplated suicide."
},
{
"text": "She contemplated a change of direction in her life"
},
{
"text": "I was seriously contemplating moving to Mexico."
},
{
"text": "She was seriously contemplating working abroad."
},
{
"text": "We're contemplating the possibility of moving house."
},
{
"text": "He's only 55, but he's already contemplating retirement."
}
],
"synonyms": "consider, think about/of",
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["seriously", "even"],
"verb + contemplate": ["be prepared to", "be willing to", "cannot"],
"phrases": ["too awful to contemplate", "too horrible to contemplate"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to think carefully about and accept the possibility of something happening",
"sensetop": "contemplate somethingcontemplate how/what, etc…contemplate that…",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The thought of war is too awful to contemplate.",
"contextForm": "contemplate something"
},
{
"text": "How could you even contemplate such an idea?"
},
{
"text": "I can't contemplate what it would be like to be alone.",
"contextForm": "contemplate how/what, etc…"
},
{
"text": "She contemplated that things might get even worse.",
"contextForm": "contemplate that…"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["seriously", "even"],
"verb + contemplate": ["be prepared to", "be willing to", "cannot"],
"phrases": ["too awful to contemplate", "too horrible to contemplate"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to think deeply about something for a long time",
"sensetop": "contemplate (something)",
"labels": "(formal)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "to contemplate your future"
},
{
"text": "She lay in bed, contemplating."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["seriously", "even"],
"verb + contemplate": ["be prepared to", "be willing to", "cannot"],
"phrases": ["too awful to contemplate", "too horrible to contemplate"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to look at somebody/something in a careful way for a long time",
"sensetop": "contemplate somebody/something",
"labels": "(formal)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She contemplated him in silence."
},
{
"text": "He sat there, contemplating his fingernails."
}
],
"synonyms": "stare at"
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkɒntəmpleɪt/",
"audio": "xc/contemplate/xcontemplate__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkɒntəmpleɪts/",
"audio": "xc/contemplate/xcontemplates__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkɒntəmpleɪtɪd/",
"audio": "xc/contemplate/xcontemplated__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkɒntəmpleɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "xc/contemplate/xcontemplating__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkɑːntəmpleɪt/",
"audio": "xc/contemplate/xcontemplate__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkɑːntəmpleɪts/",
"audio": "xc/contemplate/xcontemplates__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkɑːntəmpleɪtɪd/",
"audio": "xc/contemplate/xcontemplated__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkɑːntəmpleɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "xc/contemplate/xcontemplating__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 16th cent.: from Latin contemplat- ‘surveyed, observed, contemplated’, from the verb contemplari, based on templum ‘place for observation’."
}