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Chew   /tʃu/   Listen
Chew

verb
(past & past part. chewed; pres. part. chewing)
1.
Chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth.  Synonyms: jaw, manducate, masticate.  "Chew your food and don't swallow it!" , "The cows were masticating the grass"
noun
1.
A wad of something chewable as tobacco.  Synonyms: chaw, cud, plug, quid, wad.
2.
Biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow.  Synonyms: chewing, manduction, mastication.



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"Chew" Quotes from Famous Books



... suffer corporally, cannot certainly be eaten corporally; but so they affirm concerning the body of our blessed Lord; it cannot do or suffer corporally in the Sacrament, therefore it cannot be eaten corporally, any more than a man can chew a spirit, or eat a meditation, or swallow ...
— The Literary Remains Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Edited By Henry Nelson Coleridge

... side to side, affecting to chew to gain confidence]: Well, Mr. Gibson, to come down to plain words—there ain't no two best ways o' ...
— The Gibson Upright • Booth Tarkington

... moisten bran during the passover for chickens, but they may scald it. A woman must not moisten bran in her hand when she goes to the bath. But she may rub it dry on her flesh. A man should not chew wheat and leave it on a wound during Passover, ...
— Hebrew Literature

... hope he doesn't eat me!" thought the Candy Rabbit. "It is lucky I can speak and understand animal talk. When I get in the pony's stall I'll call out and ask him not to chew me up ...
— The Story of a Candy Rabbit • Laura Lee Hope

... yourself. I have half killed myself with writing it, for I chew opium every night to ...
— Olla Podrida • Frederick Marryat


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