"think about" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈθɪŋk əˌbaʊt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-think about.wav [US] Forms: thinks about [present, singular, third-person], thinking about [participle, present], thought about [participle, past], thought about [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|think<,,thought> about}} think about (third-person singular simple present thinks about, present participle thinking about, simple past and past participle thought about)
  1. (transitive) To ponder. Tags: transitive Translations (ponder): մտորել (mtorel) (Armenian), pripensi (Esperanto), ajatella (Finnish), pohtia (Finnish), penser à (French), réfléchir à (French), (jemand) denken an (German), αναλογίζομαι (analogízomai) (Greek), (alcuno, alco) pensar a (Interlingua), mieritreritra (Malagasy), pensar em (Portuguese), pensar sobre (Portuguese), обду́мывать (obdúmyvatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), обду́мать (obdúmatʹ) [perfective] (Russian), मन्यते (manyate) (Sanskrit), myslieť o [with-locative] (Slovak), pensar en alguien (Spanish), ponderar (Spanish), tänka på (Swedish), pälsk- (Tocharian A), pälsk- (Tocharian B)
    Sense id: en-think_about-en-verb-pUZxMe4e Disambiguation of 'ponder': 89 11
  2. (transitive) To consider as a course of action. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-think_about-en-verb--owzykjU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (about) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 96 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (about): 15 85

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "ponder",
      "word": "մտորել"
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      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "ponder",
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      "sense": "ponder",
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "ponder",
      "word": "pohtia"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ponder",
      "word": "penser à"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ponder",
      "word": "réfléchir à"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ponder",
      "word": "(jemand) denken an"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "analogízomai",
      "sense": "ponder",
      "word": "αναλογίζομαι"
    },
    {
      "code": "ia",
      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "sense": "ponder",
      "word": "(alcuno, alco) pensar a"
    },
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      "code": "mg",
      "lang": "Malagasy",
      "sense": "ponder",
      "word": "mieritreritra"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "ponder",
      "word": "pensar em"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "ponder",
      "word": "pensar sobre"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "obdúmyvatʹ",
      "sense": "ponder",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "обду́мывать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "obdúmatʹ",
      "sense": "ponder",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "обду́мать"
    },
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      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "manyate",
      "sense": "ponder",
      "word": "मन्यते"
    },
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      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "ponder",
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "ponder",
      "word": "pensar en alguien"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "ponder",
      "word": "ponderar"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "ponder",
      "word": "tänka på"
    },
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      "lang": "Tocharian A",
      "sense": "ponder",
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