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US
/ˌɹumɪˈneɪʃən/
]
NOUN
- regurgitation of small amounts of food; seen in some infants after feeding
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(of ruminants) chewing (the cud)
ruminants have remarkable powers of rumination - a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
How To Use rumination In A Sentence
- It was not a message we ever heard from Shakespeare, who, increasingly fretful about the fate of kings, retreated into the ruminations of King Lear and a litigious retirement.
- And even if ruminators can come up with a solution to their problems, because rumination makes their problems seem so large it saps their motivation to take even the littlest steps towards solutions.
- In the 1980s, her geopolitical ruminations moved out of domestic settings.
- In all these works, the artist brings a novelist's sweep to his ruminations on what was once optimistically named the Century of Progress.
- The point is to break the hold that rumination has on your mind and body.
- After much careful rumination, I have decided to make public a rather embarrassing matter about myself.
- I guess the point of this little rumination is that your goal is not to “write right,” to write dutifully for an hour every day, to write the way the so-called experts – including me! — tell you is the proper way to write. 2010 May «
- The problems that develop in relationships are great fuel for rumination, the obsessive overthinking that often pulls people into depression.
- Such garbled ruminations, however, were my very first undoing, for instanter I had stepped on vicious air and landed a good three feet below.
- From this bag (the paunch) in the act of rumination a certain portion of the food is ejected into the second chamber, which is termed the reticulum (i.e. a little net) from the peculiar arrangement of its inner or mucous surface, which is lined with a network of shallow hexagonal cells. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon