Manducate: alternatives and connections

To bite with repeated action of the teeth so as to be heard.

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To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit.

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To chew loudly and greedily; to champ.

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To chew with force and noise; to craunch.

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To bite, as something hard or tough, which is not readily separated or crushed; to bite off little by little, with effort; to wear or eat away by scr…

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The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.

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To speak with the lips partly closed, so as to render the sounds inarticulate and imperfect; to utter words in a grumbling indistinct manner, indicat…

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To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, as a beast chews provender; to chew deliberately or in large mouthfuls.

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Serving to gratify; agreeable.

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To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.

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To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.

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One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.

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To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food.

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