英和和英

発音

• 韻: -ɒndə(ɹ)

動詞

overponder (third-person singular simple present overponders, present participle overpondering, simple past and past participle overpondered)

1. (transitive) To ponder or consider too much.
   • 1982 August 22, “Slow-Bowling Cures Worse Than the Spreading Malady?”, in The Grand Rapids Press, page 9J:

     […] being misinterpreted by some individuals who overponder what to do with the ball on each and every shot.

   • 2003 August, “Burning Spears”, in W Magazine, page 122:

     Spears prefers not to overponder her place in the pop pantheon.

   • 2022, Seamus O'Malley, “Land for the People!” (chapter 2), in Irish Culture & “The People”: Populism and Its Discontents, Oxford University Press, page 52:

     […] James Joyce has made us overponder Parnell's “betrayal” and fall […] .

同意語

• overthink