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Ruminate   /rˈumɪnˌeɪt/   Listen
Ruminate

verb
(past & past part. ruminated; pres. part. ruminating)
1.
Chew the cuds.
2.
Reflect deeply on a subject.  Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, speculate, think over.  "Philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years" , "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"






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"Ruminate" Quotes from Famous Books



... the chateau grounds 'the order of the Iron Cross'—a generous supply of these decorations being carried in a basket by one of his orderlies, following him about as he walked along. Meantime the King, leaving Napoleon in the chateau to ruminate on the fickleness of fortune, drove off to see his own victorious soldiers, who greeted him with huzzas that rent the air, and must have added to the ...
— The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Complete • General Philip Henry Sheridan

... the Letter which you have writ me hath given me some incumbrance, and made me more then three times to ruminate upon the question you propounded to me concerning Marriage; for it is a matter of great importance, that ought to be well pondered and considered of, before one should adventure to solemnize & celebrate it. Several of my familiar friends have troubled me touching the very same subject, ...
— The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple (1682) • A. Marsh



Words linked to "Ruminate" :   question, cogitate, introspect, eat, theologise, consider, wonder, premeditate, puzzle, think, ruminant, rumination, ruminative, study, ruminator, theologize, cerebrate, bethink, rumen



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