remasticate

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English

Etymology

From re- +‎ masticate.

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.
    • 1970, Garry Wills, chapter 7, in Nixon Agonistes,, New York: New American Library, page 257:
      Nixon, on the same night, sat alone, remasticating answers for Bud Wilkinson, his kept TV interrogator
    • 2000, Jack Olsen, “Enigma in Robes”, in Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt, New York: Doubleday, page 384:
      Matters that had been adjudicated in other courts would not be remasticated.

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