muse
[verb]
Synonyms: ponder, brood, cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, meditate, mull over, reflect, ruminate

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Related Words: excogitate, study

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I. muse¹ /mjuːz/ verb
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: muser, from muse 'mouth of an animal'; ⇒ muzzle¹]

1. [transitive] to say something in a way that shows you are thinking about it carefully:
‘Somewhere,’ he mused, ‘I’ve heard your name before.’

2. [intransitive] to think about something for a long time Synonym : ponder
muse on/over/about/upon
He mused on how different his life would have been, had he not met Louisa.
—musing noun [uncountable and countable]:
her gloomy musings
—musingly adverb

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II. muse² noun [countable]
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: French; Origin: Latin Musa, from Greek Mousa]

1. someone’s muse is the force or person that makes them want to write, paint, or make music, and helps them to have good ideas Synonym : inspiration:
Rossetti’s wife and creative muse

2. (also Muse) one of the nine ancient Greek goddesses who each represented a particular art or science:
the Muse of History

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