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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
ruminate
v 1: chew the cuds; "cows ruminate"
2: reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the
afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of
God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to
observe and start to excogitate" [syn: chew over, think
over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate,
muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate,
speculate]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Ruminate \Ru"mi*nate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ruminated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Ruminating.] [L. ruminatus, p. p. of ruminari,
ruminare, fr. rumen, -inis, throat, akin to ructare to belch,
erugere to belch out, Gr. ?, AS. roccettan.]
1. To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly
chewed and swallowed. "Cattle free to ruminate."
--Wordsworth.
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2. Fig.: To think again and again; to muse; to meditate; to
ponder; to reflect. --Cowper.
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Apart from the hope of the gospel, who is there that
ruminates on the felicity of heaven? --I. Taylor.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Ruminate \Ru"mi*nate\, v. t.
1. To chew over again.
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2. Fig.: To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.
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Mad with desire, she ruminates her sin. --Dryden.
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What I know
Is ruminated, plotted, and set down. --Shak.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Ruminate \Ru"mi*nate\, Ruminated \Ru"mi*na`ted\, a. (Bot.)
Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled
with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North
American papaw.
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Thesaurus Results for ruminate:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
be abstracted, bite, brood, brood over, champ, chaw, chew, chew over, chew the cud, chew up, chomp, chump, con over, consider, contemplate, crunch, debate, deliberate, deliberate over, deliberate upon, digest, excogitate, gnash, gnaw, grind, gum, introspect, masticate, meditate, meditate upon, mouth, mull over, mumble, munch, muse, muse on, muse over, nibble, perpend, play around with, play with, ponder, ponder over, reflect, reflect over, revolve, roll, ruminate over, run over, scrunch, speculate, study, think over, toy with, turn over, weigh |
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Common Misspellings > |
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