Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To chew (food).
- intransitive verb To grind and knead (rubber, for example) into a pulp.
- intransitive verb To chew food.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To grind with the teeth, and prepare for swallowing and digestion; chew: as, to
masticate food. - To prepare for use by cutting or kneading, as with a masticator.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
chew (food). - verb transitive To
grind orknead something into apulp .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb grind and knead
- verb chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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After which I need to go away and mentally masticate.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Because the ladies have been relatively well behaved… 2010
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Colman Andrew's book not only tells us of the life of Ferran Adria, and makes us wish to have had the opportunity to eat at the restaurant, but he also cooks up a dish that we must masticate in order to ingest.
Lael Hazan: Eating Art: Ferran And Molecular Gastronomy Lael Hazan 2011
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I did, however, get to masticate sika deer, which is sensational.
A Gold Medal Stag 2009
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I did, however, get to masticate sika deer, which is sensational.
A Gold Medal Stag 2009
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Colman Andrew's book not only tells us of the life of Ferran Adria, and makes us wish to have had the opportunity to eat at the restaurant, but he also cooks up a dish that we must masticate in order to ingest.
Lael Hazan: Eating Art: Ferran And Molecular Gastronomy Lael Hazan 2011
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It is also possible that carbohydrates are easier to masticate compared to some other foods such as meat which may be easier to eat when puréed and spoon-fed.
Baby weight: finger foods better than spoon-feeding, study suggests 2012
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Having bitten off this large mouthful, Mr. Burroughs proceeds with serene and beautiful satisfaction to masticate it in the following fashion.
The Other Animals 2010
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To assist in learning to speak, its helps if children have foods that requires them to masticate.
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To all the trolls:Take small bites and masticate that crow thoroughly, and ask praetorian to pass the salt.
Ed Driscoll » Polls Are Closed — “GOP’s Brown Wins In Epic Upset” 2010
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We've had an entire console generation -- and then some -- to masticate the first three Silent Hill games, and because of that, I think we're forgetting some things.
Archive 2008-09-01 SVGL 2008
tbtabby commented on the word masticate
I could masticate sausages all day long.
October 19, 2007
deliasailed commented on the word masticate
I'll masticate your sausage.
June 30, 2008
super-logos commented on the word masticate
very naughty....
August 19, 2008
jeffrey.t.whitney commented on the word masticate
I masticate 3 times a day.
June 10, 2009
jorge999 commented on the word masticate
after a long day at camp, the boys masticated furiously
November 6, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word masticate
Did they comminute anything?
November 6, 2009
tbtabby commented on the word masticate
"...and Loopin was masticating to it!"
January 29, 2010
tankhughes commented on the word masticate
I learned from a Gastropod podcast about an early version of chewing gum that people used to chew resin from the mastic tree. https://gastropod.com/gums-the-word-a-sticky-story/ (picture at link). So. The resin came from the tree name came from the French/Latin Greek verb?
March 28, 2022