0 past simple and past participle of ruminate --
1 to think carefully and for a long period about something: --
2 (of particular types of animal) to bring up food from the stomach and chew it again --
Symptoms tend to cease when the ruminated contents become acidic.
Some found it more attractive the longer they ruminated on the idea.
We have ruminated on this issue for years.
He ruminated on the possibility in a tone of loss, loss of cultured personhood.
Some children may have ruminated on the first test item that they could not label, perhaps persevering in an attempt to retrieve its name.
