Ruminate (Verb)
Meaning 1
Chew the cuds; "cows ruminate".
Classification
Verbs of eating and drinking.
Examples
- Cows spend most of their day eating and ruminating to break down cellulose in plant-based foods.
- After eating her lunch, the cow lay down to ruminate for a while.
- Ruminants like goats and sheep are uniquely adapted to ruminate on plant material.
- In order to extract the nutrients from plant based foods, cattle must ruminate for hours.
- It's common for cows to eat quickly then spend several hours elsewhere to quietly ruminate.
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Meaning 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".
Classification
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting.
Examples
- She spent the entire evening alone in her room to ruminate over the painful conversation with her mother.
- Many artists ruminate on their personal experiences as they create their works of art, pouring their emotions into their craft.
- As the sun set over the ocean, he began to ruminate on life's biggest mysteries and what lay beyond human understanding.
- Her quiet nature often led people to believe she didn't care, but in reality, she spent most of her downtime to ruminate on her thoughts and feelings.
- The writer found it necessary to ruminate on the darker corners of the human heart in order to craft a more realistic story.