contemplate

v

1. watch, keep an eye on, keep a vigil, rivet one's eye upon, stare at, gaze at, view, look at; attend, pay attention to, mind, heed; observe, regard, eye, peer, pry; survey, reconnoiter, scrutinize, scan, examine, inspect; witness, see, notice, note.

2. meditate, muse, ponder, brood, mull over, dwell on; reflect, cogitate, rack one's brains, cudgel one's brains, ruminate, chew over, chew one's cud, be in a brown study; think about or over, cerebrate, put on one's thinking cap, be abstracted, be lost in thought; concentrate on, focus on, put one's mind to, have one's mind on; consider, deliberate, excogitate, take to heart, Archaic. perpend; revolve, review, turn over, weigh, evaluate, study, con; wonder about, speculate, surmise, suppose, conjecture, theorize, hypothesize.

3. purpose, intend, aim, project, destine, mean; have in view, envisage, envision, visualize, dream of, aspire to, look forward to, imagine, fancy; conceive, think up, have ideas about, Inf. dream up; devise, contrive, plan, scheme, plot, design, Obs. consult; frame, concoct, invent, brew, hatch.