MASTICATES Synonyms

• a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person

• a small amount of solid food; a mouthful

• a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin

• a light informal meal

• (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait

• wit having a sharp and caustic quality

• a strong odor or taste property

• the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws

• a portion removed from the whole

• to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws

• cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort

• penetrate or cut, as with a knife

• deliver a sting to

• a wad of something chewable as tobacco

• biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow

• chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth

• the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws

• chew noisily or vigorously

• a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

• leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated

• a dense crowd of people

• temporary love of an adolescent

• the act of crushing

• come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority

• to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition

• come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

• break into small pieces

• humiliate or depress completely

• crush or bruise

• make ineffective

• become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure

• bite or chew on with the teeth

• become ground down or deteriorate

• an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious

• the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground

• hard monotonous routine work

• the act of grinding to a powder or dust

• press or grind with a crushing noise

• make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together

• work hard

• dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced

• reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading

• created by grinding

• shape or form by grinding

• a large bite

• Norwegian painter (1863-1944)

• crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound

• a small byte

• gentle biting

• bite off very small pieces

• bite gently

• eat intermittently; take small bites of

• To grind to a fine powder, to pulverize.

• To mix two solid reactants by repeated grinding and stirring.

• To break up biological tissue into individual cells via passage through a narrow opening such as a hypodermic needle.

• a wad of something chewable as tobacco

• biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow

• chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth

• the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth

• the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth

• holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object

• talk socially without exchanging too much information

• talk incessantly and tiresomely

• chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth

• censure severely or angrily

• chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth