Thesaurus results for MASTICATES

masticates

verb

Definition of masticates next

present tense third-person singular of masticate

as in chews

to crush or grind with the teeth mindlessly masticated peanuts while watching the baseball game on TV

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Recent Examples of masticates The opening sequence, where McGuigan shamelessly apes Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, is reasonably entertaining, and McAvoy masticates the scenery with a winking fervor that befits the project, but the whole thing is unforgivably half-baked. —

Dan Sheehan, Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2021

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chews

Verb

Though Brind’Amour vigorously chews his gum behind the players on the Hurricanes bench, Daniels is often stoic, blending into a background of red and white.

— Cory Lavalette, New York Times, 7 May 2026
One enzyme acts as a random chopper, snipping the long polymer chains into smaller pieces, while the other slowly chews these pieces into their monomer building units from each end.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 3 May 2026