gauge
verb (used with object)
to determine the exact dimensions, capacity, quantity, or force of; measure.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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"I am gauging my weakness just at present," he said.
From The Tidal Wave and Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell