1 (of particular types of animal) to bring up food from the stomach and chew it again
2 to think slowly and carefully:
He ruminated over his loss.
One such devotional practice was the making of rapiaria, or notebooks of especially valuable scriptural texts for ruminating during meditation.
I hope with all my heart they are only masticating and ruminating before they decide to swallow.
A standing order made in 1961 allows the importation of ruminating animals and swine by the main zoological societies under suitable safeguards.
I have spent a quite disproportionate part of my life thinking about cricket, playing cricket, ruminating about cricket and watching cricket.
I have been ruminating about the financial policy that has been followed by this country in the last 10 years and about its effect upon the colonial world.
They are ruminating on their chances of mere survival, let alone victory in the coming fight.
Later, she ruminates that she may be in love with both men.
She ruminates on finding morals in everything around her.
