remasticate

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English

Etymology

re- +‎ masticate

Verb

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  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, Nixon Agonistes, New York: New American Library, Chapter 7, p. 257,[1]
      Nixon, on the same night, sat alone, remasticating answers for Bud Wilkinson, his kept TV interrogator […]
    • 2000, Jack Olsen, Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt, New York: Doubleday, “Enigma in Robes,” p. 384,[2]
      Matters that had been adjudicated in other courts would not be remasticated.

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