wonder verb

ADV. hazily, idly, vaguely I wondered vaguely whether Robert could be the murderer. | briefly, fleetingly | apprehensively, uneasily I wondered uneasily if anything had happened to the children. | bleakly, despairingly | irritably | aloud ‘Where's Natasha?’ she wondered aloud. | just ‘Why do you ask?’ ‘I just wondered.’ | often, sometimes I sometimes wonder who's crazier, him or me.

VERB + WONDER begin to I was just beginning to wonder where you were. | cannot/could not help but, can only I couldn't help but wonder what he was thinking. | make sb His obvious hunger made her wonder how long he had been up and about.

PREP. about We'd wondered about you as a possible team member.