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Ruminated vs Ruinated - What's the difference?

ruminated | ruinated |

As verbs the difference between ruminated and ruinated

is that ruminated is (ruminate) while ruinated is (ruinate).

As an adjective ruminated

is (botany) ruminate.

ruminated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (ruminate)

    • Adjective

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  • (botany) ruminate

    • ruminate

    English

    Verb

    (ruminat)
  • To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.
    • A camel will ruminate just as a cow will.
  • To meditate or reflect.
    • I didn't answer right away because I needed to ruminate first.
  • To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.
  • * Shakespeare
    • What I know / Is ruminated , plotted, and set down.
  • * Dryden
    • Mad with desire, she ruminates her sin.

    Synonyms

    * See also * Or

    Related terms

    * rumen * ruminant * rumination

    Derived terms

    * ruminator

    See also

    * chew the cud

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (botany) Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.
    • a ruminate endosperm

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    ruinated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (ruinate)

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    ruinate

    English

    Verb

    (ruinat)
  • To reduce to ruins; to destroy.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.viii:
    • Towres, Cities, Kingdomes ye would ruinate , / In your auengement and dispiteous rage […].
  • *, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.51:
    • as in lust, [animals] covet carnal copulation at set times, men always, ruinating thereby the health of their bodies.
  • To fall; to tumble.

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