masticate
verb (used with or without object)
to chew.
unmasticated
-
a word derived from
masticate.
Example Sentences
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Birds have developed a digestive system adapted to eating unmasticated food.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
He ate hurriedly, half chewing the bread and washing the unmasticated chunks down with coffee.
From When God Laughs: and other stories by Jack London
Foreign Bodies in the Air-Passages.—Foreign bodies impacted in the pharynx usually consist of unmasticated pieces of meat or large tooth-plates, and they occlude both the food and the air-passages, frequently causing sudden death.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
This word is used by the common people, more especially the peasantry, to denote the swallowing of masses of unmasticated food; and of morsels that may not be particularly relished, such as fat.
From Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell
The hasty swallowing of unmasticated food, too large a bolus, defective or artificial teeth, flaccidity of tissues, and spasm of the cricopharyngeus muscle, are etiologic factors.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
