"quander" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "quanders",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quandering",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quandered",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quandered",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "quander (third-person singular simple present quanders, present participle quandering, simple past and past participle quandered)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1906, The Reader - Volume 7, page 230",
          "text": "While thus I quandered in despair, imagine, please, me shocks — A gang o' naked savages came troopin' down the rocks ;.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1933, “A Coin”, in The Numismatist, volume 46, page 799",
          "text": "There's a difference in the die-breaks, Or change made in the die, That leads the numismatic mind To quander and to pry.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Henry Louis Gates (Jr.), Gene Andrew Jarrett, The New Negro",
          "text": "The picture continued to press upon young Alford's mind, and with the peculiar vigor of youth, he had stopped to quander over the outward aspect of the situation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, William Schumann, The Big Spud: USS Idaho in WWII, page 321",
          "text": "Unusual short hop, should have been at least four hours or more, but I didn't have time to quander over it, because Lt. Hanse and I get the call to take her back up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Michael O'Shea, Blood on the Risers, page 161",
          "text": "What the hell did I get myself into? he quandered, peering down at the long, slender legs as they drew up closer to his thigh . . . the dark, kneehigh skirt climbing slowly above the gartered silk stockings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To ponder or wonder about."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "ponder",
          "ponder"
        ],
        [
          "wonder",
          "wonder"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "quander"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "quanders",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quandering",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quandered",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quandered",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1906, The Reader - Volume 7, page 230",
          "text": "While thus I quandered in despair, imagine, please, me shocks — A gang o' naked savages came troopin' down the rocks ;.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1933, “A Coin”, in The Numismatist, volume 46, page 799",
          "text": "There's a difference in the die-breaks, Or change made in the die, That leads the numismatic mind To quander and to pry.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Henry Louis Gates (Jr.), Gene Andrew Jarrett, The New Negro",
          "text": "The picture continued to press upon young Alford's mind, and with the peculiar vigor of youth, he had stopped to quander over the outward aspect of the situation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, William Schumann, The Big Spud: USS Idaho in WWII, page 321",
          "text": "Unusual short hop, should have been at least four hours or more, but I didn't have time to quander over it, because Lt. Hanse and I get the call to take her back up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Michael O'Shea, Blood on the Risers, page 161",
          "text": "What the hell did I get myself into? he quandered, peering down at the long, slender legs as they drew up closer to his thigh . . . the dark, kneehigh skirt climbing slowly above the gartered silk stockings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To ponder or wonder about."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ponder",
          "ponder"
        ],
        [
          "wonder",
          "wonder"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "quander"
}