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Third Person
ruminates
Present Participle
ruminating
Past Tense
ruminated
Past Participle
ruminated
1
to think carefully and at length about something
- She likes to ruminate on philosophical questions before bed.
- He ruminates over every decision, weighing all possible outcomes.
- The poet ruminated on love and loss while walking alone.
- They ruminate on past mistakes to avoid repeating them.
- I often ruminate on what success really means.
2
to chew food that has been regurgitated from the stomach, as done by certain animals like cows
- The cow ruminates peacefully in the shade.
- After grazing, the sheep settled down to ruminate.
- You can tell the goat is healthy when it ruminates regularly.
- The buffalo ruminated slowly, its jaw moving in circles.
- That calf hasn't started to ruminate yet—it's still nursing.