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Ruminate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

verb-intransitive. To turn a matter over and over in the mind.

verb-intransitive. To chew cud.

v. To reflect on over and over again.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.

v. To meditate or reflect.

adj. Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

verb-intransitive. To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed.

verb-intransitive. To think again and again; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to reflect.

v. To chew over again.

v. To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.

adj. Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To chew the cud, as a ruminant; practise rumination.

To muse; meditate; think again and again; ponder: as, to ruminate on misfortunes.

To chew again.

To turn over in the mind; muse on; meditate over and over.

In botany, appearing as if chewed: noting a structure of the endosperm (albumen) of a seed which gives a mottled appearance to its section, and which results from the infolding of a dark inner layer of the seed-coat into the lighter-colored matter of the endosperm, as in the nutmeg.

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v. chew the cuds

v. reflect deeply on a subject

Word Usage

"Their study, which included 1,300 men and women from ages 25 to 75, focused on a person's tendency to "ruminate," which they defined as getting stuck obsessing on negative emotions when trouble enters one's life."

Equivalent

ruminated

Verb Form

ruminated ruminates ruminating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

eat

Cross Reference

chew the cud

Form

ruminator

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

muse meditate ponder reflect consider