Usually means: Repetitive, obsessive negative thought process.
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  1. rumination: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rumination: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rumination: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rumination: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rumination: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rumination, rumination: Wordnik
  7. rumination: Wiktionary
  8. rumination: Dictionary.com
  9. Rumination (disambiguation), Rumination (psychology), Rumination: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Rumination: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. rumination: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. rumination: Rhymezone
  13. Rumination: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. rumination: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. rumination: Free Dictionary
  16. rumination: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. rumination: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. rumination: Encyclopedia

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  3. Rumination: Merck Manuals
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  6. Rumination: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. rumination: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ruminate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (rumination)

noun:  The act of ruminating; i.e. chewing cud.
noun:  (figuratively) Deep thought or consideration.
noun:  (psychology) Negative cyclic thinking; persistent and recurrent worrying or brooding.
noun:  (pathology) An eating disorder characterized by repetitive regurgitation of small amounts of food from the stomach.

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