Synonyms of the word

munch

• v. To chew with a grinding, crunching sound—often used with on.
• v. To eat vigorously or with excitement.
• n. A location or restaurant where good eating can be expected.
• n. (colloquial) An act of eating.
• n. (uncountable, slang) food.
• n. (BDSM) A casual meeting for those interested in BDSM, usually at a restaurant. See Munch (BDSM).

bite

• v. (transitive) To cut off a piece by clamping the teeth.
• v. (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
• v. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
• v. (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
• v. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
• v. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
• v. (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some…
• v. (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
• v. (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be…
• v. (transitive) To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense.
• v. (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so…
• v. (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
• v. (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
• v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
• v. (intransitive, African American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
• n. The act of biting.
• n. The wound left behind after having been bitten.
• n. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
• n. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
• n. (slang) Something unpleasant.
• n. (slang) An act of plagiarism.
• n. A small meal or snack.
• n. (figuratively) aggression.
• n. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of…
• n. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
• n. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
• n. (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else,…

chew

• v. To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break…
• v. To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
• v. (informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
• n. The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
• n. A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
• n. (informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
• n. (countable or uncountable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.

chomp

• n. The act of chomping (see below).
• v. (intransitive) To bite or chew loudly or heavily.
• v. (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or,…

crunch

• v. To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
• v. To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
• v. (slang) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations).
• v. To grind or press with violence and noise.
• v. To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
• v. (computing, transitive) To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by…
• n. A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
• n. A critical moment or event.
• n. (exercise (sport)) A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains…

jaw

• n. One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
• n. The part of the face below the mouth.
• n. (figuratively) Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; especially plural, the mouth…
• n. A notch or opening.
• n. A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place.
• n. One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing…
• n. (nautical) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
• n. (slang, dated) Impudent or abusive talk.
• n. (slang) Axle guard.
• n. (snooker) The curved part of the cushion marking the entry to the pocket.
• v. (transitive) To assail or abuse by scolding.
• v. (intransitive) To scold; to clamor.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To talk; to converse.
• v. (snooker, transitive, intransitive) (of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.
• adj. (used in certain set phrases like jaw harp, jaw harpist and jaw's-trump).

manducate

• v. (literary) to chew; to masticate.
• v. (literary) to eat.

masticate

• v. (transitive) To chew (food).
• v. (transitive) To grind or knead something into a pulp.

painter

• n. An artist who paints pictures.
• n. A laborer or workman who paints surfaces using a paintbrush or other means.
• n. (obsolete) A chain or rope used to attach the shank of an anchor to the side of a ship when not in use.
• n. (nautical) A rope connected to the bow of a boat, used to attach it to e.g. a jetty or another boat.
• n. (US) A mountain lion, by mispronunciation of "panther".