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UK
/ɹˈuːmɪnˌeɪt/
]
[ US /ˈɹumɪˌneɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈɹumɪˌneɪt/ ]
VERB
-
chew the cuds
cows ruminate -
reflect deeply on a subject
philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years
The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate
I mulled over the events of the afternoon
How To Use ruminate In A Sentence
- So that's how they miscall hooch down in this country," ruminated The Plunderer
- How she just now speaketh soberly, this drunken poetess! hath she perhaps overdrunk her drunkenness? hath she become overawake? doth she ruminate? — Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
- As I walked up Gracechurch Street from Monument that morning I had a quiet ruminate on what I thought I really was doing. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
- The cow needs a balance of physical ingredients in her rumen to get her to ruminate, to slow down the flow of food through the stomach and develop rumen wall muscle tone.
- Sir Richard didn't drive very fast and I had time to ruminate as I drove along. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
- I need to cogitate and ruminate on it a bit more before the official electoral prediction.
- ‘There are at least some well – disposed men in the world,’ ruminated the misanthropical Dumps, as he proceeded towards his destination. Sketches by Boz
- He was happy to have some spare time to ruminate on the case. WIDOW'S END
- She ruminated for weeks about whether to tell him or not.
- He ruminates, at one point, that maybe awakened men and women of old were copied by students and initiates observing this movement in the hope that it would be beneficial or move them towards the ‘goal’.
