| 单词 | manducate |
| 释义 | manducate (once / 1477414 pages) v When you manducate carrots, you chew them. Your stiff, formal grandmother might instruct you to manducate your food more slowly. Use the verb manducate when you need a formal word for eating. Horses manducate mouthfuls of hay and little kids who are new to trick-or-treating might want to manducate each piece of candy as it's dropped in their treat bag on Halloween. While chew is a far more common word than manducate, even masticate is used more often. Manducate is rooted in the Latin manducat-, "chewed," from mandere, "to chew." WORD FAMILYmanducate: manducating v chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth Syn|Hypo|Hyper chew, jaw, masticate champ, chomp chew noisily champchafe at the bit, like horses gum, mumblegrind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty chawchew without swallowing crunch, munchchew noisily gnawbite or chew on with the teeth grate, grind make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together |
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