🇬🇧 Ruminate meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Some animals, like cows and sheep, eat their food, swallow it, and then later bring it back up into their mouths to chew it again more carefully. When they do this second round of chewing, we say they ruminate. It helps them break down tough plants so their bodies can use all the goodness from the food.

The cow lay in the shade to ruminate and looked so relaxed that the farmer almost asked it for napping tips.

The camel stopped walking, began to ruminate, and looked like it had remembered a very tasty secret.

The cow liked to ruminate right after breakfast, lunch, and dinner, proving that leftovers can be inside your own stomach.

While the sheep began to ruminate, it looked like it was quietly thinking about life, but really it was just on Snack Round Two.

The cow liked to ruminate so long that the grass probably thought it had signed a forever chewing contract.

Two old cows ruminate in warm sunlight. A child crouches and watches as they ruminate, spitting grass back up to chew. Bite by bite they ruminate again, eyes half closed, slow chewing. The child tries to ruminate like them, then laughs, pats a warm flank, and the cows ruminate softly and roll to sleep.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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