remasticate
verbEtymology From re- + masticate.
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:
- 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 384:
- Synonyms
- rechew
- Related terms
- remastication