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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth;
- Example: "He jawed his bubble gum"
- Example: "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"
- Example: "The cows were masticating the grass"
[syn: chew, masticate, manducate, jaw]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Manducate \Man"du*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Manducated; p. pr. & vb. n. Manducating.] [L. manducatus, p. p. of manducare to chew. See Manger.] To masticate; to chew; to eat. [R.] --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

manducate v 1: chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth; "He jawed his bubble gum"; "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"; "The cows were masticating the grass" [syn: chew, masticate, manducate, jaw]