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remasticate

remasticate verb: to chew or masticate again.

Verb

remasticate (third-person singular simple present remasticates, present participle remasticating, simple past and past participle remasticated)

  1. To chew or masticate again.
    • Ruminants such as cattle and sheep regurgitate and remasticate their food.
  2. (figuratively) To go over or ponder again.
    • Nixon, on the same night, sat alone, remasticating answers for Bud Wilkinson, his kept TV interrogator […]1970, Garry Wills, chapter 7, in Nixon Agonistes,, New York: New American Library, page 257
    • Matters that had been adjudicated in other courts would not be remasticated.2000, Jack Olsen, “Enigma in Robes”, in Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt, New York: Doubleday, page 384

Synonyms of remasticate

Forms of remasticate

third-person singular presentremasticates
present participleremasticating
past participleremasticated
pastremasticated

Origin of remasticate

From re- + masticate.

Questions about remasticate

What does remasticate mean?
Remasticate means to chew or masticate again.
What part of speech is remasticate?
Remasticate is a verb.
What is the past tense of remasticate?
The past tense of remasticate is remasticated.

Words near remasticate in the dictionary

  1. remasterer
  2. remasterers
  3. remastering
  4. remasterings
  5. remasters
  6. remasticate
  7. remasticated
  8. remasticates
  9. remasticating
  10. remastication
  11. remastications

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