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Masticate

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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Champ 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Chaw 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Chomp 76% connected

To chew loudly and greedily; to champ.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Crunch 76% connected

To chew with force and noise; to craunch.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Gnaw 76% connected

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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Gum 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Mumble 76% connected

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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Munch 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 4

Grate 76% connected

Serving to gratify; agreeable.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Grind 76% connected

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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Knead 76% connected

To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; esp., to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, as the mater…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Jaw 74% connected

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

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Jaw 74% connected

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

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 3

Chew 92% connected

To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Jaw 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Manducate 92% connected

To masticate; to chew; to eat.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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