Tees out on eastern sea shown respect (8)
I believe the answer is:
esteemed
'shown respect' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to thinking as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'tees out on eastern sea' is the wordplay.
'out' indicates anagramming the letters (out can mean wrong or inaccurate).
'on' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'eastern' becomes 'e'.
'sea' becomes 'med' (short for Mediterranean).
'tees' anagrammed gives 'stee'.
'e'+'med'='emed'
'stee' inserted into 'emed' is 'ESTEEMED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for esteemed that I've seen before include "Prestigious" , "Thought highly of, say customer" , "attracting veneration" , "Respected and valued, like customer" , "Respected, admired" .)