| NOUN | act | mastication, chew, chewing, manduction | biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow |
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| Meaning | biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow. | |
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| Synonyms | chew, chewing, manduction | |
| Part of | eating, feeding | The act of consuming food |
| Narrower | chomping | The act of chewing noisily |
| mumbling, gumming | Ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth) | |
| rumination | (of ruminants) chewing (the cud) | |
| Broader | change of state | The act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics / characteristics |
| Spanish | masticación | |
| Catalan | masticació | |
| Verbs | masticate | chew (food) |
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