0 to think carefully and for a long period about something: --
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.
Leviticus cites explicitly the camel, because it ruminates but does not have a cloven hoof; the hyrax and the hare are excluded on the same grounds.
As he is ruminating over the injustices inflicted upon him in his life, he is suddenly set upon by a pack of dog-sized rats and is devoured alive.
The play ruminates upon the idea that any two individuals are connected by at most five others.
He ruminates on the nature of government and morality.
He spends the rest of the evening ruminating on the problem.
S/he ruminates about the death and longs for a reunion with the departed, feeling unsure of his/her identity and place in the world.
Much paper has been consumed by historians of science ruminating on this idea.
She ruminates on finding morals in everything around her.
