muse
verb/mjuːz/
/mjuːz/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they muse | /mjuːz/ /mjuːz/ |
| he / she / it muses | /ˈmjuːzɪz/ /ˈmjuːzɪz/ |
| past simple mused | /mjuːzd/ /mjuːzd/ |
| past participle mused | /mjuːzd/ /mjuːzd/ |
| -ing form musing | /ˈmjuːzɪŋ/ /ˈmjuːzɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] muse (about/on/over/upon something) to think carefully about something for a time, ignoring what is happening around you synonym ponder
- I sat quietly, musing on the events of the day.
- [transitive] + speech | muse that… to say something to yourself in a way that shows you are thinking carefully about it
- ‘I wonder why?’ she mused.
Word Originverb Middle English: from Old French muser ‘meditate, waste time’, perhaps from medieval Latin musum ‘muzzle’.
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