aiming, allowing(chiefly Southern & Midland), aspiring, calculating, contemplating, designing, going(chiefly Southern & Midland), intending, looking, meaning, meditating, planning, proposing, purporting

dreaming, hoping, wishingconsidering, debating, mulling (over), ponderingattempting, endeavoring, striving, struggling, tryingplotting, schemingaccomplishing, achieving, effecting, executing, performing

figuring on