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Mastication

noun
1.
Biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow.  Synonyms: chew, chewing, manduction.





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"Mastication" Quotes from Famous Books



... his slate. Diamonds and gold watches were taken and many thousands of dollars in bank bills and coin came into his hands. He choked the market with bargains. The buyers began to back off. They were like hungry dogs laboring with a difficult problem of mastication. Mr. Davis closed ...
— A Man for the Ages - A Story of the Builders of Democracy • Irving Bacheller
... moment the sound of jaws in the act of mastication, which proceeded from beneath the furnace, ...
— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo


Words linked to "Mastication" :   chewing, gumming, mumbling, manduction, change of state, chomping, masticate, rumination, eating, feeding


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