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ruminate v. chew the cuds; "cows ruminate"
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ruminate v. [
chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, speculate] reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"
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