0 present participle of wonder --
1 to ask yourself questions or express a wish to know about something: --
I wonder if you could give me some information about places to visit in the area?
[ + question word ] I wonder whether you could pass me the butter?
We were wondering if/whether you'd like to have dinner with us some time?
"Have you decided where you're going next summer?" "I've been wondering about (= considering) going to Florida."
[ + speech ] Will this turkey be big enough for eight, I wonder?
He's starting to wonder whether he did the right thing in accepting this job.
[ + question word ] Shouldn't you phone home? Your parents will be wondering where you are.
2 to feel or express great surprise at something: --
[ + (that) ] I don't wonder (that) she burst into tears after the way you spoke to her.
One is left at the end of the book wondering quite what is its central thrust, and to whom it is aimed.
Again, in case you're wondering, substitution is more likely to be permissible than subordination.
After the performance, curiously, some of the audience seemed embarrassed wondering who to be applauded.
I keep singing and stepping, and smile encouragingly at them, wondering where this will lead, and what will happen next.
We are left wondering why they were they never reinstated in the 1950 or 1972 reprints.
One is left wondering how relations evolved during the crucial years of cardenista experimentation.
We were wondering, however, whether archaeological research and historical interpretation would thrive optimally with an interaction of specialisms only.
Elsewhere, the reader is often left wondering why cases of censorship occurred in certain eras.
