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remasticating

remasticating is the present participle and gerund of remasticate.

Meaning of remasticate

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

Questions about remasticating

What is remasticating the present participle and gerund of?
Remasticating is the present participle and gerund of remasticate.

Words near remasticating in the dictionary

  1. remasterings
  2. remasters
  3. remasticate
  4. remasticated
  5. remasticates
  6. remasticating
  7. remastication
  8. remastications
  9. remasting
  10. remasts
  11. remasturbated

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