Word Meanings - MASTICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MASTICATE)

• Chew
• Masticate
• munch
• eat

Related words: (words related to MASTICATE)

• MASTICATE
  To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food.
• MASTICATER
  One who masticates.
• MUNCHAUSENISM
  An extravagant fiction embodying an account of some marvelous exploit or adventure.
• MUNCHER
  One who munches.
• MUNCH
  To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, as a beast chews I could munch your good dry oats. Shak.
• REMASTICATE
  To chew or masticate again; to chew over and over, as the cud.