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Mastication

//mæstɪˈkeɪʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The process of chewing. countable, uncountable

    "“It is no more blasphemous than that thing which is swiping our meat,” I replied, for whatever the thing was, it had leaped upon our deer and was devouring it in great mouthfuls which it swallowed without mastication. The creature appeared to be a great lizard at least ten feet high, with a huge, powerful tail as long as its torso, mighty hind legs and short forelegs."

  2. 2
    biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow wordnet
  3. 3
    The process of crushing as though chewed. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Late Latin masticātiō, equivalent to masticate + -ion.

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