- chew, chewing, mastication, manduction - biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
--1 is a kind of change of state
--1 is a part of eating, feeding
--1 has particulars: chomping; mumbling, gumming; ruminationDerived form: verb chew1
- chew, masticate, manducate, jaw - chew (food); "He jawed his bubble gum"; "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"; "The cows were masticating the grass"
--1 is one way to grate, grind
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun chewer1, noun chew1, noun chew2, noun chewing1
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something