Found 2 items, similar to ruminated.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: ruminate
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,
speculate]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Ruminated
Ruminate
\Ru"mi*nate\, Ruminated
\Ru"mi*na`ted\, a. (Bot.)
Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled
with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North
American papaw.
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Ruminate
\Ru"mi*nate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Ruminated; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Ruminating.] [L. ruminatus, p. p. of ruminari,
ruminare, fr. rumen, -inis, throat, akin to ructare to belch,
erugere to belch out, Gr. ?, AS. roccettan.]
1. To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly
chewed and swallowed.
“Cattle free to ruminate.”
--Wordsworth.
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2. Fig.: To think again and again; to muse; to meditate; to
ponder; to reflect. --Cowper.
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Apart from the hope of the gospel, who is there that
ruminates on the felicity of heaven? --I. Taylor.
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