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verbremasticate (third-person singular simple present remasticates, present participle remasticating, simple past and past participle remasticated)
present singular third person remasticates · participle present remasticating · participle past remasticated · past remasticated
- figurativelyTo go over or ponder again.
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 3841 more example
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
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Esperanto remaĉi
- remaĉichew again
French remâcher, remâcher
- remâcherchew again
- remâchergo over again
German wiederkäuen
- wiederkäuenchew again
Irish athchogain
- athchogainchew again
Italian rimasticare, rimasticare
- rimasticarechew again
- rimasticarego over again
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