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study verb To ponder, reflect on, think about (something). [DARE labels this usage “chiefly South, South Midland, Texas”]

1937 Hall Coll (Cosby TN) [After the dynamite explosion on Big Creek] they jes' come in, drapped down in chairs, and never said a word. I studied what was the matter. 1939 Hall Coll (Nine Mile TN) I got to studyin’ how near that bear come a-gettin’ me. 2008 Rosie Hicks 3 I couldn’t study for what that man was going to get me.