不及物动词

1. 沉思;琢磨;认真考虑
If you ruminate on something, you think about it very carefully.

2. （动物）反刍
When animals ruminate, they bring food back from their stomach into their mouth and chew it again.

1. reflect deeply on a subject

e.g. 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

Synonym: chew overthink overmeditateponderexcogitatecontemplatemusereflectmullmull overspeculate

2. chew the cuds

e.g. cows ruminate