1. Biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
   - chew, chewing, manduction

Derived forms: mastications

See also: masticate

Type of: change of state

Part of: eating, feeding

Encyclopedia: Mastication

• peptic ulcer
• peptic ulceration
• peptidase
• peptide
• peptide bond
• peptide linkage
• peptisation
• peptise
• peptization
• peptize
• Pepto-bismal
• peptone
• Pepys
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• per capita
• per capita income
• per centum
• per diem
• per se
• per year
• peradventure
• perambulate
• perambulating
• perambulation