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consider

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consider in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. judge or regard; look upon; judge
    "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"
    think  believe  consider  conceive 
  2. deem to be
    "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"
    see  consider  reckon  view  regard 
  3. take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
    "Take the case of China"; "Consider the following case"
    consider  take  deal  look at 
  4. regard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem
    "Please consider your family"
    consider 
  5. show consideration for; take into account
    "You must consider her age"; "The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient"
    consider  count  weigh 
  6. think about carefully; weigh
    "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind"
    consider  debate  moot  turn over  deliberate 
  7. give careful consideration to
    "consider the possibility of moving"
    study  consider 
  8. look at attentively
    regard  consider 
  9. look at carefully; study mentally
    "view a problem"
    view  consider  look at 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University