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MASTICATION

Dictionary entry overview: What does mastication mean?

• MASTICATION (noun)
The noun MASTICATION has 1 sense:

1. biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow

Familiarity information: MASTICATION used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• MASTICATION (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

chewing; mastication; chew; manduction

Hypernyms ("mastication" is a kind of...):

change of state (the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mastication"):

chomping (the act of chewing noisily)

gumming; mumbling (ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth))

rumination ((of ruminants) chewing (the cud))

Holonyms ("mastication" is a part of...):

eating; feeding (the act of consuming food)

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