- cudgel one's brain
- ► cudgel one's brain think hard about a problem.Main Entry: ↑cudgel
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cudgel one's brain — (or brains) think hard about a problem … Useful english dictionary
cudgel one's brain — Brit. think hard about a problem. → cudgel … English new terms dictionary
cudgel — ► NOUN ▪ a short thick stick used as a weapon. ► VERB (cudgelled, cudgelling; US cudgeled, cudgeling) ▪ beat with a cudgel. ● cudgel one s brain Cf. ↑cudgel one s brain … English terms dictionary
cudgel — [ kʌdʒ(ə)l] noun a short, thick stick used as a weapon. verb (cudgels, cudgelling, cudgelled; US cudgels, cudgeling, cudgeled) beat with a cudgel. Phrases cudgel one s brain Brit. think har … English new terms dictionary
brain — or brains [brān] n. [ME < OE brægen < IE base * mregh m(n)o , skull, brain > Gr bregma, forehead] 1. [sometimes pl.] the mass of nerve tissue in the cranium of vertebrate animals, an enlarged extension of the spinal cord: it is the main… … English World dictionary
beat one's brains out — phrasal or beat one s brains : to cudgel one s brain : try continually and energetically to think out something difficult * * * beat one s brains or beat one s brains out To puzzle about something • • • Main Entry: ↑beat … Useful english dictionary
rack one's brains — THINK HARD, concentrate, cudgel one s brains; informal scratch one s head. → rack * * * rack one s brains To use one s memory or reasoning powers to the utmost • • • Main Entry: ↑rack * * * rack (or wrack) one s brains (or brain) make a great… … Useful english dictionary
deliberate — adj 1. intentional, purposeful, meant, destined, willful, volitional, voluntary; premeditated, preconceived, preconceptional, aforethought, prede terminate, predetermined, prepense; meditated, studious, studied, considered, weighed; preconcerted … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
mull — v 1. study, examine, con, evaluate, weigh, turn over, review, revolve; ruminate, cogitate, chew, chew one s cud, reflect on, think over, rack one s brains, cudgel one s brain, trouble one s head; brood, dwell on, be in a brown study; ponder, muse … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
ponder — v 1. cogitate, think over, rack one s brains, cudgel one s brain, trouble one s head; ruminate, chew, chew one s cud, brood, mull over, dwell on, be in a brown study; reflect, speculate, wonder about, dream about, muse; meditate, contemplate,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
