to wonder
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1.2
- verb
- /ˈwʌndər/
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- As I gazed at the night sky filled with stars, I couldn't help but wonder about the mysteries of the universe.
Though the stitched flesh is clean, you wonder that the body healed at all.
- Though the stitched flesh is clean, you wonder that the body healed at all.
Examples
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It makes you wonder why any of this ever happened.
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How, students must wonder, can such a progressive place have produced all those boat people?
Academic text (1992) -
I began to wonder, you know, why is this not front and center?
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But I wonder at what we have seen... and how it was done.
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Will those who have constructed this hell ever wonder what was it all for?
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Yet we are entitled to wonder, I think, at least two things.
Academic text (1999) -
I was shocked and I wondered how it had happened.
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I was rather taken aback by his lifestyle and began to wonder what was going on.
Academic text (1992) -
And now, after the initial wave of grief, he wondered at his calmness.
Fiction book (1990) -
So philosophers and theologians scratch their heads and they wonder where all that energy came from.
Synonyms
68
3.8
To feel strong surprise or wonder about something
Idioms
Compounds
- Informal
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5.4
Something very impressive that people compare to the ancient wonders
- Offensive
1
9.9
A person, usually a man, who seems weak and is made fun of for lacking courage
- Specialized
A bushy tropical plant grown for animal feed with long pods of white seeds
- South African
A South African plant with long white spikes often used in winter bouquets
How Amazed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Wonder comes from an old English word wundor, which meant 'a marvel' and the surprise that comes with it. That's why to wonder at something is to feel surprise and admiration.