ruminating
present participle ofruminate
ruminate
verb[I]
uk/ˈruː.mɪ.neɪt/us/ˈruː.mə.neɪt/ruminateverb[I](THINK)
formal
tothinkcarefullyand for alongperiodabout something:
She ruminated forweeksabout whether totellhim or not.
Thinking and contemplating
- a brown studyidiom
- agonize
- agonize over/aboutsomething
- beard-stroking
- bethink
- consideration
- dip
- introspect
- introspection
- joined-up thinking
- lateral thinking
- let me see/let's seeidiom
- rack
- scratch
- scratchyourheadidiom
- self-contemplation
- self-reflection
- soul-searching
- spare
- spring to mindidiom
ruminateverb[I](EAT)
biologyspecialized
(ofparticulartypesofanimal) tobringupfoodfrom thestomachandchewit again
Animal (non-human) behaviour
- accidental
- beg
- behave
- behaviour
- behavioural science
- behaviourist
- groom
- hatch
- hover
- monogamy
- murmuration
- nocturnal
- non-migrant
- non-migratory
- nuzzle
- ruminate
- scent
- skitter
- slaver
- torpor
Examplesofruminating
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This raises the possibility that depressed patients may beruminatingat a ceiling level prior to receiving response inductions.
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One such devotional practice was the making of rapiaria, or notebooks of especially valuable scriptural texts forruminatingduring meditation.
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For those receiving the distraction induction, mood improved in all patients and problem-solving improved in patients who were not naturallyruminatingat a high level.
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Ruminatingwhen depressed is thought to lower mood and impair problem-solving, while distraction is thought to alleviate mood and assist problem-solving.
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These pairs are analogous, first, to walking through part of a museum, seeing andruminating; and second, to that part of the museum itself.
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Rather, it may be that only when adolescent girls areruminatingabout failures and setbacks in pursuing personal goals is selfdiscrepancy a contributory factor for depression.
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Ostertagia ostertagi in neonatal calves : establishment of infection inruminatingand non-ruminatingcalves.
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Most people in the 1950s were grappling with the present, notruminatingon the past, and private concerns were what took centre stage most of the time.
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Whetherruminatingon negative thoughts about the self is more associated with persistence of disorder in adolescents, as suggested from studies of young adults, is not known.
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And so frustrated thousands will have to spend the holiday seasonruminatingin their gardens while the nationalised express trains thunder past half empty.
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A standing order made in 1961 allows the importation ofruminatinganimals and swine by the main zoological societies under suitable safeguards.
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It is a thought worthruminatingupon, but perhaps the opposite is true as well—that before every economic revival there must come a spiritual revival.
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I have spent a quite disproportionate part of my life thinking about cricket, playing cricket,ruminatingabout cricket and watching cricket.
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I have beenruminatingabout the financial policy that has been followed by this country in the last 10 years and about its effect upon the colonial world.
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They areruminatingon their chances of mere survival, let alone victory in the coming fight.
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- stage name
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