Why do cows ruminate?
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Ruminate
/ˈɹumɪneɪt/
Synonyms for "ruminate" (106 found)
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Strong matches (31)
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meditate upon
Noun(3 words)
Related words (53)
Verb(20 words)
meditatedmeditatesmullmull overmusemusedor thesaurus:thinkoverthinkoverthinksoverthoughtpondersrackedregurgitateregurgitatesroamedspeculatespeculatedstewedthink overtormented
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More general
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6 entriesCollocations
6 entriescognitive ruminationdeep ruminationmetacognitive ruminationruminationrumination processruminative thinking
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
3 entriesTranslations
28 translations across 17 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- խորհրդածել verb (to meditate)
Bulgarian
1 entries- размишлявам verb (to meditate)
Czech
3 entries- hloubat verb (to meditate)
- přemítat verb (to meditate)
- rozebírat verb (to meditate)
Dutch
1 entries- overdenken verb (to meditate)
Finnish
1 entries- märehtiä verb (to meditate)
French
1 entries- ruminer verb (to meditate)
German
1 entries- grübeln verb (to meditate)
Greek
1 entries- σκέφτομαι verb (to meditate)
Hungarian
3 entries- elmélkedik verb (to meditate)
- mereng verb (to meditate)
- rágódik verb (to meditate)
Māori
1 entries- whakaraupeka verb (to meditate)
Norwegian
1 entries- tygge på verb (to meditate)
Polish
4 entries- myśleć verb (to meditate)
- pomyśleć verb (to meditate)
- zastanawiać się verb (to meditate)
- zastanowić się verb (to meditate)
Portuguese
2 entries- remoer verb (to meditate)
- ruminar verb (to meditate)
Romanian
1 entries- rumega (o idee) verb (to meditate)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- cnuasaich verb (to meditate)
Spanish
3 entries- cavilar verb (to meditate)
- rebinar verb (to meditate)
- rumiar verb (to meditate)
Ukrainian
2 entries- роздумувати verb (to meditate)
- розмірковувати verb (to meditate)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
A camel will ruminate just as a cow will.
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There is surely some point beyond which the acquisition of other men’s thoughts must not be carried. This we say for the sake of those helluones librorum, who read forever and without stint; browsing as diligently as oxen in the green herbage of rich meads, but, unlike these, never lying down to ruminate. Life is too short, Art is too long, for a human mind to make perpetual accretion of book-learning, without halt. Sufflaminandum est.
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I didn't answer right away because I needed to ruminate first.
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