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Masticate synonyms

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gnaw
To cut, bite, and wear away bit by bit with the teeth
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  1. To cut, bite, and wear away bit by bit with the teeth
  2. To bite, chew on, or erode with the teeth.
  3. To bite or chew persistently:
nibble
To take small or hesitant bites:
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  1. To take small or hesitant bites:
  2. To bite at gently and repeatedly.
  3. To show little interest in food by taking only small bites intermittently
chew-up
(US, idiomatic) to defeat utterly
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  1. (US, idiomatic) to defeat utterly
  2. (Idiomatic) to ruin (especially land), by digging
  3. To chew so as to make something pulpy
champ
To chew hard and noisily; munch
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  1. To chew hard and noisily; munch
  2. (Intransitive) to bite or chew, especially noisily or impatiently.
  3. To work the jaws and teeth vigorously.
chew
To bite and grind or crush with the teeth; masticate
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  1. To bite and grind or crush with the teeth; masticate
  2. To chew something
  3. To meditate on; ponder:
chomp
To chew or bite on something repeatedly:
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  1. To chew or bite on something repeatedly:
  2. (Intransitive) To bite or munch loudly or heavily.
  3. To chew something loudly or heavily.
chump
To chew or make a chewing movement.
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  1. To chew or make a chewing movement.
crump
To make a crunching sound, especially in walking over snow.
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  1. To make a crunching sound, especially in walking over snow.
  2. To crush or crunch with the teeth.
  3. To strike heavily with a crunching sound.
crunch
To bite or chew with a noisy, crackling sound
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  1. To bite or chew with a noisy, crackling sound
  2. To press, grind, tread, fall, etc. with a noisy, crushing sound
  3. To move with a crushing sound:
munch
To chew steadily, often with a crunching sound
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  1. To chew steadily, often with a crunching sound
  2. To eat with pleasure.
  3. To chew food audibly or with a steady working of the jaws.
chaw
To chew.
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  1. To chew.
Find another word for masticate. In this page you can discover 15 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for masticate, like: gnaw, nibble, chew-up, bite, chew, eat, champ, chew, chomp, chump and crump.

Sentence Examples

  • The common manner of using it is to masticate the dried leaves with a little lime.

  • Coca is highly esteemed by the natives, who masticate the leaf, and is also an article of export for medicinal purposes.

  • The food of the camel consists chiefly of the leaves of trees, shrubs and dry hard vegetables, which it is enabled to tear down and masticate by means of its powerful front teeth.

  • Much dyspepsia would be avoided by attention to the condition of the teeth, by artificial teeth when the natural ones are defective, and by obedience to one or two simple rules: (z) to eat slowly; (2) to masticate thoroughly; (3) to take no liquid with meals excepting breakfast, but sip half a pint of hot water on rising in the morning, on going to bed at night, and again about an hour before luncheon and dinner.

  • masticate experienced with masticating juicers, which I gather are slower to use.

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