Mastication

Definitions

1. The process of chewing.
   countable, uncountable
2. The process of crushing as though chewed.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

““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.”

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