Usually means: Chew food before swallowing it.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word masticate:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. masticate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. masticate: Merriam-Webster
  3. masticate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. masticate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. masticate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. masticate: Vocabulary.com
  7. masticate: Wordnik
  8. masticate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. masticate: Wiktionary
  10. masticate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. masticate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. masticate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. masticate: Dictionary.com
  14. Masticate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Masticate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. masticate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. masticate: Rhymezone
  18. Masticate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. masticate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. masticate: FreeDictionary.org
  21. masticate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. masticate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. masticate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. masticate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. masticate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. masticate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Masticate: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Orthodontic Terms (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. masticate: Medical dictionary
  6. Masticate: Drug Medical Dictionary
  7. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. masticate: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See masticated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To chew (food).
verb:  (transitive) To grind or knead something into a pulp.

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