Synonym of the word MASTICATE

v. To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break…
v. To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
v. (informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
n. The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
n. A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
n. (informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
n. (countable or uncountable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.

n. A horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.
n. A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
v. (transitive) To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.
v. (transitive, cooking) To shred things, usually foodstuffs, by rubbing across a grater.
v. (intransitive) To rub against, making a (usually unpleasant) squeaking sound.
v. (by extension, intransitive) To grate on one’s nerves; to irritate or annoy.
v. (intransitive) To make an unpleasant rasping sound.
v. (by extension, transitive, obsolete) To annoy.
adj. (obsolete) Serving to gratify; agreeable.

v. To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
v. To shape with the force of friction.
v. (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
v. To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
v. To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
v. (sports) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
v. To oppress, hold down or weaken.
v. (slang) To rotate the hips erotically.
v. (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed…
v. (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
v. To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
v. To instill through repetitive teaching.
v. (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
v. (slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
n. The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
n. Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
n. A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
n. A tedious task.
n. A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
n. (archaic, slang) One who studies hard; a swot.
n. Grindcore (subgenre of heavy metal).
n. A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.

n. One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
n. The part of the face below the mouth.
n. (figuratively) Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; especially plural, the mouth…
n. A notch or opening.
n. A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place.
n. One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing…
n. (nautical) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
n. (slang, dated) Impudent or abusive talk.
n. (slang) Axle guard.
n. (snooker) The curved part of the cushion marking the entry to the pocket.
v. (transitive) To assail or abuse by scolding.
v. (intransitive) To scold; to clamor.
v. (intransitive, informal) To talk; to converse.
v. (snooker, transitive, intransitive) (of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.
adj. (used in certain set phrases like jaw harp, jaw harpist and jaw's-trump).

v. (transitive) To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated…
v. (transitive, figuratively) To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat.
v. (intransitive, of cats) To make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws.
v. (transitive) To mix thoroughly; form into a homogeneous compound.

n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
v. (transitive) To set into action.
v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
v. (intransitive) To ferment.
v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
v. (transitive) To cause to work.
v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

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