MANDUCATE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does manducate mean? 

• MANDUCATE (verb)
  The verb MANDUCATE has 1 sense:

1. chew (food)

  Familiarity information: MANDUCATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANDUCATE (verb)

Meaning:

Chew (food)

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

chew; manducate; masticate; jaw

Context examples:

He jawed his bubble gum / Chew your food and don't swallow it! / The cows were masticating the grass

Hypernyms (to "manducate" is one way to...):

grate; grind (make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "manducate"):

champ; chomp (chew noisily)

champ (chafe at the bit, like horses)

gum; mumble (grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty)

chaw (chew without swallowing)

crunch; munch (chew noisily)

gnaw (bite or chew on with the teeth)

Sentence frames:

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