Why do cows ruminate?
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Ruminate
//ˈɹumɪneɪt//
Synonyms for "ruminate" (77 found)
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Related words (38)
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More general
4 entriesSynonyms
8 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
4 entriesdistinct from
3 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
3 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
12 entriesTranslations
81 translations across 45 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- اجْتَرَّ verb (to chew cud)
- جر verb (to chew cud)
Armenian
2 entries- խորհրդածել verb (to meditate)
- որոճալ verb (to chew cud)
Aromanian
1 entries- aroamig verb (to chew cud)
Assamese
1 entries- পাগুলা verb (to chew cud)
Bulgarian
3 entries- преживям verb (to chew cud)
- преживям, предъвквам verb (to chew cud)
- размишлявам verb (to meditate)
Catalan
1 entries- remugar verb (to chew cud)
Chinese
1 entries- 翻草 verb (to chew cud)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 反芻 /反刍 verb (to chew cud)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 反芻 /反刍 verb (to chew cud)
Czech
4 entries- hloubat verb (to meditate)
- přemítat verb (to meditate)
- přežvykovat verb (to chew cud)
- rozebírat verb (to meditate)
Danish
2 entries- drøvtygge verb (to chew cud)
- tygge drøv verb (to chew cud)
Dutch
2 entries- herkauwen verb (to chew cud)
- overdenken verb (to meditate)
Faroese
1 entries- jótra verb (to chew cud)
Finnish
2 entries- märehtiä verb (to chew cud)
- märehtiä verb (to meditate)
French
2 entries- ruminer verb (to chew cud)
- ruminer verb (to meditate)
German
3 entries- beibe verb (to chew cud)
- grübeln verb (to meditate)
- wiederkäuen verb (to chew cud)
Greek
2 entries- μηρυκάζω verb (to chew cud)
- σκέφτομαι verb (to meditate)
Hakka Chinese
1 entries- 倒草 verb (to chew cud)
Hungarian
4 entries- elmélkedik verb (to meditate)
- kérődzik verb (to chew cud)
- mereng verb (to meditate)
- rágódik verb (to meditate)
Icelandic
1 entries- jórtra verb (to chew cud)
Irish
1 entries- athchogain verb (to chew cud)
Italian
1 entries- ruminare verb (to chew cud)
Latin
1 entries- rūmīnō verb (to chew cud)
Māori
1 entries- whakaraupeka verb (to meditate)
Norwegian
1 entries- tygge på verb (to meditate)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- drøvtygge verb (to chew cud)
- tygge drøv verb (to chew cud)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- jorte verb (to chew cud)
- ørte verb (to chew cud)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- كومك verb (to chew cud)
Persian
1 entries- ژاویدن verb (to chew cud)
Polish
4 entries- myśleć verb (to meditate)
- pomyśleć verb (to meditate)
- przeżuwać verb (to chew cud)
- przeżuć verb (to chew cud)
Portuguese
4 entries- remoer verb (to meditate)
- rumiar verb (to chew cud)
- ruminar verb (to chew cud)
- ruminar verb (to meditate)
Quechua
1 entries- kutipakuy verb (to chew cud)
Romanian
2 entries- rumega verb (to chew cud)
- rumega (o idee) verb (to meditate)
Russian
1 entries- жева́ть жва́чку verb (to chew cud)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- ath-chagainn verb (to chew cud)
- cnuasaich verb (to chew cud)
- cnuasaich verb (to meditate)
Seko Tengah
1 entries- prežúvať verb (to chew cud)
Slovak
1 entries- prežúvať verb (to chew cud)
Spanish
4 entries- cavilar verb (to meditate)
- rebinar verb (to meditate)
- rumiar verb (to chew cud)
- rumiar verb (to meditate)
Swedish
1 entries- idissla verb (to chew cud)
Tashelhit
1 entries- ⴼⴰⵥⵥ verb (to chew cud)
Telugu
1 entries- నెమరువేయు verb (to chew cud)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ремигати verb (to chew cud)
- ремиґати verb (to chew cud)
- роздумувати verb (to meditate)
- розмірковувати verb (to meditate)
Unami
1 entries- shëshkòmwi verb (to chew cud)
Walloon
1 entries- roemyî verb (to chew cud)
Welsh
1 entries- cilgnoi verb (to chew cud)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
A camel will ruminate just as a cow will.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
I didn't answer right away because I needed to ruminate first.
Source: wiktionary
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