Masticate

Definitions: Masticate

Masticate

Verb

1. Grind and knead; "masticate rubber".

2. Chew (food); "He jawed his bubble gum"; "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"; "The cows were masticating the grass".

Date "masticate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Note: Masticate \Mas"ti*cate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Masticated; present participle verb or noun Masticating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Masticate

Synonyms: chew (v), jaw (v), manducate (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Food	Verb: eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in; lick, pick, peck; gormandize; bite, champ, munch, cranch, craunch, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Masticate

English words defined with "masticate": Masticated, Masticating ♦ Remasticate. (references)

Etymologies containing "masticate": Masticador. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Do you masticate, Mr. Lightbody? (The Road to Wellville; writing credit: Alan Parker)
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Domain	Title
Music	Masticate! (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Play	Caption
	Crunching; chewing; grinding; mastication; masticate; eat; eating; chew .
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"Masticate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Masticate" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	66.67%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "masticate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mbllaçit (chew, munch), përtyp (champ, chew, crunch, munch), përçap (chew, chump), ngjesh (clench, compact, compress, gird on the sword, huddle, jam, jostle, mix, pack, ram down, squeeze, tamp). (various references)

Arabic		‏مضغ (chew, chewing, crunch, gum, mastication), ‏علك (mastication), ‏عجن (impaste, knead, mastication, puddle). (various references)

Bulgarian		сдъвквам, онанирам (masturbate), дъвча (champ, chaw, chew, grind, mouth, munch). (various references)

Czech		žvýkat (chew, munch). (various references)

Farsi		چاوش کردن , نرم کردن (Humanize, Jellify, Levigate, Loosen, Mash, Modulate, Plasticize, Pulverize, Soften), خمیرکردن (Knead, Leaven, Levigate, Mash), جویدن (Champ, Chaw, Chew, Munch), بزاقی کردن . (various references)

Finnish		pureskella (chew, munch). (various references)

French		mastiquer, mâcher, empâter. (various references)

German		kauen (champ, chaw, chew, chomp, mastication, mouthwash, to mouthwash). (various references)

Greek		μασώ (champ, chew, mastticate). (various references)

Hebrew		ללעוס (chew, manducate). (various references)

Hungarian		rág (chew, gnaw, gnawed, gnawn, to canker, to chew, to gnaw, to masticate), pépesít (to masticate, to mush, to pulp), darál (granulate, grind, ground, mill, to grind, to mill, to mince). (various references)

Italian		masticare (chew, mumble, munch, putty). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		噛� �く (to crunch, to explain plainly, to masticate, to simplify), 噛み� �く (to crunch, to explain plainly, to masticate, to simplify). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かみく� く (to crunch, to explain plainly, to masticate, to simplify). (various references)

Pig Latin		asticatemay

Portuguese		mastigar (bite, chew), mascar (chaw, chew), mástique (mastic, putty), triturar (Basil, Bray, break, bruise, champ, crunch, crush, disintegration, grind, lead on, mash, mill, pounder, powder keg, scrunch, Spall, talcum, triturate). (various references)

Romanian		mesteca (champ, chew, eat, manducate, mouth, ruminate, stir), mastica. (various references)

Russian		жевать (chew, munch, ruminate). (various references)

Scottish		cagainn (chew, gnaw). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		žvakati (chew). (various references)

Spanish		masticar (chew, munch, scrunch), amasar (knead, mash, mix, pug, to knead). (various references)

Swedish		tugga (bite, champ, chew, repeart, shew). (various references)

Turkish		çiğnemek (break, champ, chew, chump, contravene, crunch, infringe, outrage, override, run down, run over, squelch, stamp, swamp, tramp, trample, trample down, transgress, violate). (various references)

Ukranian		місити (batter, impaste, knead, mix), жувати (champ, chaw, chew, munch, ruminate). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	mandare, mandas, mandat, mandatis, mandebant, mandetis, mandi, mando, manduca, manducabam, manducabant, manducabat, manducabimus, manducabis, manducabit, manducabitis, manducabo, manducabunt, manducandi, manducandum, manducans, manducant, manducantem, manducantibus, manducantium, manducare, manducarent, manducaret, manducas, manducasse, manducassent, manducasset, manducasti, manducastis, manducat, manducate, manducatis, manducaturos, manducaverant, manducaverimus, manducaverit, manducaveritis, manducaverunt, manducavi, manducavimus, manducavit, manducem, manducemus, manducent, manduces, manducet, manducetis, mansi. (various references)
Late Latin	300-700	masticare. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "masticate": masticated, masticates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Masticate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: maastrict, maestricht, masicate, Masstricht, mastacate, mastakate, mastecate, mastica, masticatw, mastigate, Mastricht, masturcate, masyicate, maticate, Mattinata, mysticate, Mysticeta, mysticete, Mysticeti, nasticate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "masticate" (pronounced 'Mas"ti*cate'): Aberuncate, Abjudicate, Affricate, Allocate, Altercate, Amplificate, Appendicate, Apricate, Arsenicate, Authenticate, Averruncate, Avocate, Baccate, Beatificate, Biplicate, Bisaccate, Bisilicate, Bisulcate, Borosilicate, Braccate, Canonicate, Carucate, Cate, Centuplicate, Conculcate, Conduplicate, Conspurcate, Contortuplicate, Contraindicate, Convocate, Coruscate, Crebrisulcate, Decorticate, Demarcate, Dephlogisticcate, Deprecate, Depreicate, Depudicate, Desecate, Desophisticate, Despecificate, Detuncate, Diagnosticate, Dijudicate, Disintricate, Divellicate, Domesticate, Educate, Embrocate, Emendicate. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: catamites.
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-m-s-t-t"
	-1 letter: catamite.
	-2 letters: astatic, catties, etatism, satiate, sematic, statice, tatamis.
	-3 letters: amices, attics, camisa, camise, casita, cattie, mastic, mattes, misact, misate, miseat, samite, stacte, static, tamest, tatami.
	-4 letters: aceta, acmes, aecia, amias, amice, amies, atmas, attic, camas, cames, caste, cates, cesta, cesti, cites, emits, items, maces, maist, mates, matte, matts, meats, mesic, metis, micas, mites.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-m-s-t-t"
	+1 letter: masticated, masticates, metastatic.
	+2 letters: admittances, blastematic, mathematics, metaplastic, metasomatic.
	+3 letters: contaminates, matriculates, semiabstract.
	+4 letters: antimechanist, aromaticities, ascertainment, magnetostatic, masticatories, materialistic, matriarchates, misarticulate, semiautomatic, theatricalism, transmittance.
	+5 letters: antimechanists, antimetabolics, antirheumatics, arithmeticians, ascertainments, automaticities, biomathematics, decontaminates, mathematicians, metastatically, misarticulated, misarticulates, recontaminates, sacramentalist, schematization, semiautomatics, systematically, theatricalisms, transmittances.
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