chewing

1. Biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow (synset 100279654)
   is a type of: change of state - the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics
   subtypes:

   • chomping - the act of chewing noisily
   • gumming, mumbling - ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth)
   • rumination - (of ruminants) chewing (the cud)
   is a part of: eating, feeding - the act of consuming food
   same as: chew, manduction, mastication

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