Dictionary Entry
rumination
rumination is a 10-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the habit of chewing the cud. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the habit of chewing the cud.
- 2noun
The state of being disposed to ruminate or ponder; deliberate meditation or reflection.
- 3noun
The regurgitation of food from the stomach after it has been swallowed, -- occasionally observed as a morbid phenomenon in man.
- 4noun
regurgitation of small amounts of food; seen in some infants after feeding
- 5noun
(of ruminants) chewing (the cud)
"ruminants have remarkable powers of rumination"
- 6noun
a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
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