ruminate   (Sound)

The verb ruminate has 2 senses

• ruminate -- (chew the cuds; "cows ruminate")


• chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate -- (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")