• Mastication

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

    Full definition of mastication

    Noun

    mastication

    (plural mastications)
    1. The process of chewing.
      • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V"It is more blasphemous than that thing which is swiping our meat," I replied, for whatever the thing was, it had leaped upon our deer and was devouring it in great mouthfuls which it swallowed without mastication. The creature appeared to be a great lizard at least ten feet high, with a huge, powerful tail as long as its torso, mighty hind legs and short forelegs.
    2. The process of crushing as though chewed.
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