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deglutition
noun as in mastication
Weak matches
noun as in swallowing
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I, with grudging meekness and a prayer for another five minutes devoted to the deglutition of another liqueur brandy, acquiesced.
The different instruments or organs contained in the mouth, or closing it, and employed in manducation or deglutition.
Slept but little during the night, deglutition being very painful and throat much swollen.
Therefore, the reply of Erasistratus in his treatise On Deglutition was neither rhetoric nor logic.
Good teeth mean good deglutition; a clear eye means an active liver; scrubbiness and undersizedness mean feeble virility.
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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to deglutition, such as: bite, chewing, fletcherism, and fletcherizing.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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