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US
/ˈkɑdʒɪˌteɪt/
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[ UK /kˈɒdʒɪtˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒdʒɪtˌeɪt/ ]
VERB
- consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind
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use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere
How To Use cogitate In A Sentence
- In fact, it must require a considerable effort to excogitate novel labor-saving devices. By Water to the Columbian Exposition
- I'm not exactly over the moon at being another year older but my wife is taking me away for the weekend to meditate, cogitate and recuperate in Cornwall.
- Although I like being around people, I do need my quiet time to cogitate.
- More often Arthur tells jokes - set pieces that, though funny, are either old hat or burdened with so much excogitated emphasis as to, rather than prance like Lippizaners, plod like Percherons.
- The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate
- John Yates: I should have cogitated and reflected, but it's so bloody obvious there was nothing there that we didn't already know. David Cameron spoke to Rupert Murdoch's executives about BSkyB bid
- Based on the principle of full flow extinction, this paper excogitated a pocketable opacity smoke meter.
- Thomas Paine, never modest in his claims to foresight but sometimes correct nonetheless, cogitated years later on the origin of the move to replace the Continental Congress with a true federal government. Robert Morris
- It's no criticism of your work product, and no one can excogitate the perfect bill. CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2001
- When she had quite finished and he had dug out enough corroborative detail to get the picture, he went into a long silence and cogitated.
