ruminate

About 0.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.

   A camel will ruminate just as a cow will.

2. verb To meditate or reflect.

   I didn't answer right away because I needed to ruminate first.

3. verb To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.
4. adjective Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.

   a ruminate endosperm

Similar words

reflect muse meditate contemplate think over chew over mull over ponder mull speculate

Often followed by

on about over upon and in or for the

Word family

ruminated ruminates ruminating rumination ruminations ruminative ruminatively ruminator ruminators