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Meaning of ruminate

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  ruminate
      v 1: chew the cuds; "cows ruminate"
      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" [syn: {chew over}, {think
         over}, {meditate}, {ponder}, {excogitate}, {contemplate},
         {muse}, {reflect}, {mull}, {mull over}, {ruminate},
         {speculate}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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