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nounbiting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
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- tough resistant to cutting or chewing
- bite the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
- tooth hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense
- gum a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing
- camel cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions
- bolt eat hastily without proper chewing
- mumbling ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth)
- pap a diet that does not require chewing; advised for those with intestinal disorders
- gobble eat hastily without proper chewing
- llama wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump