ruminate
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Verb — To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.
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Etymology
First attested in 1533; borrowed from Latin rūminātus, perfect active participle of rūminor (“to chew the cud, turn over in the mind”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from rūmen (“the throat, gullet”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), itself of uncertain origin.
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