manducate

manducate

(ˈmændjʊˌkeɪt) vb (tr) literary to eat or chew[C17: from Latin mandūcāre to chew] ˌmanduˈcation n ˌmanduˈcatory adj

manducate

Past participle: manducated
Gerund: manducating

Imperative
manducate
manducate

Present
I manducate
you manducate
he/she/it manducates
we manducate
you manducate
they manducate

Preterite
I manducated
you manducated
he/she/it manducated
we manducated
you manducated
they manducated

Present Continuous
I am manducating
you are manducating
he/she/it is manducating
we are manducating
you are manducating
they are manducating

Present Perfect
I have manducated
you have manducated
he/she/it has manducated
we have manducated
you have manducated
they have manducated

Past Continuous
I was manducating
you were manducating
he/she/it was manducating
we were manducating
you were manducating
they were manducating

Past Perfect
I had manducated
you had manducated
he/she/it had manducated
we had manducated
you had manducated
they had manducated

Future
I will manducate
you will manducate
he/she/it will manducate
we will manducate
you will manducate
they will manducate

Future Perfect
I will have manducated
you will have manducated
he/she/it will have manducated
we will have manducated
you will have manducated
they will have manducated

Future Continuous
I will be manducating
you will be manducating
he/she/it will be manducating
we will be manducating
you will be manducating
they will be manducating

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been manducating
you have been manducating
he/she/it has been manducating
we have been manducating
you have been manducating
they have been manducating

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been manducating
you will have been manducating
he/she/it will have been manducating
we will have been manducating
you will have been manducating
they will have been manducating

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been manducating
you had been manducating
he/she/it had been manducating
we had been manducating
you had been manducating
they had been manducating

Conditional
I would manducate
you would manducate
he/she/it would manducate
we would manducate
you would manducate
they would manducate

Past Conditional
I would have manducated
you would have manducated
he/she/it would have manducated
we would have manducated
you would have manducated
they would have manducated

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

manducate - chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth; "He jawed his bubble gum"; "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"; "The cows were masticating the grass"chew, masticate, jawchomp, champ - chew noisily; "The boy chomped his sandwich"champ - chafe at the bit, like horsesgum, mumble - grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty; "the old man had no teeth left and mumbled his food"chaw - chew without swallowing; "chaw tobacco"munch, crunch - chew noisily; "The children crunched the celery sticks"grind, grate - make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate one's teeth in anger"gnaw - bite or chew on with the teeth; "gnaw an old cracker"