ruminate
B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
NeutralRegister
General verb
To turn a matter over repeatedly in the mind.
He ruminated for weeks over whether to leave the firm he had built.
Medicine verb
To dwell repetitively and unproductively on distressing thoughts or worries.
He tended to ruminate about past mistakes for hours before he could fall asleep.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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