Masticates

Word MASTICATES
Character 10
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Definitions and meanings of "Masticates"

What do we mean by masticates?

To chew (food).

To grind or knead something into a pulp.

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The word "masticates" in example sentences

Is it really so important to pay the NYT to tell you that Mr. Man masticates Canine? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Winkler's piece is nice, and Joe Wiesenthal masticates it here, and Robert Wenzel here. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As he masticates, he expounds on his theory that god has sent him to me, me being variously a "classy young lady", "a lady of very high calibre", "the prettiest thing on Yonge", and so many other cornball lines that I just stop listening. ❋ Jay (2007)

You see, many years of eating have led us into two distinct factions that are locked in a perpetual ideological struggle over what one masticates and ingurgitates. ❋ RICHARD (2005)

Joyce masticates Homer's Odyssey and spits it out in his saga of a day ❋ Unknown (1995)

Watch a monkey eating nuts and see how thoroughly he masticates each particle. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

After it has been in the second stomach for some time, and whenever the buffalo feels ready for it, the food comes back into the mouth, and he then bites or masticates it just as long as he likes. ❋ Ellen Velvin (N/A)

Watch the innocent in bristles as he places his graceful right paw upon the ear of corn, while he shells and masticates. ❋ Various (N/A)

The moment when the appetite is satisfied should be accepted as the stopping point, and that will be instinctively recognized if one eats deliberately, and thoroughly masticates the food. ❋ Unknown (1912)

A man perceives ripe fruit; he stretches out his hand, plucks, masticates, swallows, and digests it. ❋ Various (1909)

Deeply sunk in a corner, he half opens a lack-luster eye, bites and masticates his old soldier's mustache -- not long ago the only ornament on his face -- and from time to time spits out a hair. ❋ Henri Barbusse (1904)

"Whiskers" has developed cannibalistic tastes, for the hardened skin around my finger-nails is a favorite _morceau_ which she digs out with her sharp jaws and masticates with seeming delight. ❋ James Weir (1881)

The disease progresses slowly, but when far advanced the agitation is violent, and the patient swallows and masticates his food with great difficulty. ❋ Ray Vaughn Pierce (1877)

The grub, upon hatching out, being as yet incapable of attacking the firm substance of the cotyledons, masticates the delicate felt-like layer at the base of the cup and is nourished by its juices. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

Let it transform itself as it pleases into all manner of forms for the better fulfilment of its task, it makes, at the best, but a very poor instrument for mastication; nay, to say the truth, it breaks, cuts, and tears, but it never masticates at all. ❋ Jean Mac�� (1854)

Let him be closely watched, to ascertain that he well masticates his food, and that he does not eat too quickly; for young children are apt to bolt their food. ❋ Pye Henry Chavasse (1844)

At length his good resolutions stagger, and he partakes of the smallest particle, which produces a most exhilarating effect; in less then ten minutes he tastes again and again, always increasing the quantity; and in half an hour he has a gum-stick of condensed snow, which he masticates with avidity, and replaces with assiduity the moment that it has melted away. ❋ Various (1841)

One gentleman fashionably attired kept mincing his meat, and at long intervals supplying masticates that seemed not at all alert in the performance of their office. ❋ John Badcock (1823)

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