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ruminate (verb), ruminates; ruminated; ruminating
1. To think carefully about something for a long period of time: Ron was ruminating about which university he would go to long before he graduated from high school.
2. To regurgitate some of the partially digested food and to chew it again; referring to various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four or occasionally three compartments: Cows, sheep, goats, deer, camels, and giraffes are some of the animals that ruminate their food.
3. Etymology: "to turn over in the mind", also "to chew cud" (1547); from Latin ruminatus, ruminare, "to chew the cud; to turn over in the mind".
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2. To regurgitate some of the partially digested food and to chew it again; referring to various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four or occasionally three compartments: Cows, sheep, goats, deer, camels, and giraffes are some of the animals that ruminate their food.
3. Etymology: "to turn over in the mind", also "to chew cud" (1547); from Latin ruminatus, ruminare, "to chew the cud; to turn over in the mind".
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