Usually means: Consider or think deeply about.
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  1. ruminate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ruminate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ruminate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ruminate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ruminate: Vocabulary.com
  6. ruminate: Wordnik
  7. ruminate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ruminate: Wiktionary
  9. ruminate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ruminate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ruminate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ruminate: Dictionary.com
  13. ruminate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ruminate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ruminate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ruminate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ruminate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ruminate: Rhymezone
  19. ruminate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ruminate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ruminate: Free Dictionary
  22. ruminate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ruminate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. ruminate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. ruminate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Ruminate: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. ruminate: Legal dictionary

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  1. ruminate: Encyclopedia

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  2. ruminate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ruminate: A Word A Day
  2. ruminate: Idioms
  3. ruminate: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  3. Ruminate: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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verb:  (intransitive) To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.
verb:  (intransitive) To meditate or reflect.
verb:  (transitive) To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.
adjective:  (botany) Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.

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