deliberates
- 1Third-person singular simple present of deliberate.
The committee deliberates each proposal carefully before casting its votes.
Whenever a difficult case comes up, the judge deliberates well into the night.
Note
The -s ending belongs only to the verb. The adjective deliberate, as in a deliberate insult or a deliberate pace, never takes it, so this spelling always means the act of weighing, never intention or slowness. The verb works both ways: with an object (she deliberates every word) or without one (the jury deliberates). Without an object it comes closest to 'reflect.'
deliberates is a form of deliberate
deliberate, verb: To consider something carefully, weighing the matter well in the mind before reaching a decision. Full entry
- Forms
- deliberatedeliberates he/she/itdeliberating -ing formdeliberated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- deliberate → deliberates: add -s
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