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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
- When cases of dishonesty and those involving welshing on debts abound, it is worthwhile to ruminate on examples, such as the following.
- I obsess over it, agonize over it, ruminate over it.
- 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
- He ruminated on the terrible wastage that typified American life.
- Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away.
- As people grow older, they begin to ruminate on the uncertainty of life.
- Sir Richard didn't drive very fast and I had time to ruminate as I drove along. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
- MCINTYRE: In the memo, Rumsfeld ruminated about but stopped short of recommending some radical ideas which he called illustrative options, such as having U.S. troops only patrol where they are welcome and withholding aid from violent areas of Iraq. CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2006
