as in chewed
to crush or grind with the teeth
mindlessly masticated peanuts while watching the baseball game on TV
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chewed
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More than one monkey whom Strickland treated had chewed through their thighs until they’d reached the bone.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025 -
To add to the hilarity, one of the dachshunds appeared to have chewed through a couch cushion and somehow gotten stuck inside it, with its head and legs filmed protruding through the torn fabric.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Masticated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/masticated. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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