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Masticate

verb
(past & past part. masticated; pres. part. masticating)
1.
Grind and knead.
2.
Chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth.  Synonyms: chew, jaw, manducate.  "Chew your food and don't swallow it!" , "The cows were masticating the grass"






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"Masticate" Quotes from Famous Books



... occasional glance at a slice of nondescript meat, served one day as "rosbif," and the next day as "mutin shops," but unfortunately so leathery that no Sheffield blade could possibly divide it, and no human tooth nor jaw, however powerful, could masticate it. ...
— Corea or Cho-sen • A (Arnold) Henry Savage-Landor

... journeyed through divers Paynim lands to no very remote distance from Ispahan; and neither in the palace of the Pacha nor in the caravanserai of the traveller, nor in the hut of the peasant, was he so favoured as to masticate his pilaff from that fashionable service. Such is, in this and numerous other instances, the altered state of the continent and of Europe, since the annotation of the "late traveller;" and on the authority of a later, ...
— The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Volume 2. • Lord Byron



Words linked to "Masticate" :   grate, chomp, jaw, crunch, gnaw, work, mumble, gum, mastication, chaw, knead, champ, grind, munch



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