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chewing

DEFINITIONS OF: chewing

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

Synonyms:
chew, manduction, mastication
Types:
chomping
the act of chewing noisily
gumming, mumbling
ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth)
rumination
(of ruminants) chewing (the cud)
Type of:
change of state
the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics
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