Wiktionary
vb. (context idiomatic English) To ponder or reflect on a subject.
WordNet
v. reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate" [syn: chew over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate]
Usage examples of "think over".
I never had cause to think over-well of Bardelys, but had you not told me yourself, I should have hesitated to believe him so vile a despoiler of innocence, such a perverter of youth.
I see the wealth and power they possess, the influence they hold, and I think over their ceremonies and I wonder that a large body of men can devote themselves to what at times appears the most ridiculous and absurd rites without an object and without an end.
And he left the boy to think over the meaning of his all-too-suggestive words.
But there was not much chance to think over the matter, for Captain Peleg was now all alive.
Now that she had time to think over her own tragedy, she was unrepentant.
I value my solitude because that is when I seem to do my best thinking, and right now I had many things to think over.
It's true, I asked you not to break with Owen too abruptly--and I asked it, believe me, as much for your sake as for his: I wanted you to take time to think over the difficulty that seems to have arisen between you.
He sent him to bed, and threw himself down on the sofa in the library, and began to think over some of the things that Lord Henry had said to him.
They were two hundred to one, and this gave them something to think over for the night.
The night before, when he had sent his note to Susy, from a little restaurant close to Palazzo Vanderlyn that they often patronized, he had done so with the firm intention of going away for a day or two in order to collect his wits and think over the situation.