chew

Plural: chews

Noun

• a wad of something chewable as tobacco
• biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
• The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
• Level of chewiness.
• A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
• Chewing tobacco.
• A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
• The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.

Verb

Verb Forms: chewed, chewing, chews

• To crush and grind food with the teeth.
• chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
  • "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"
• To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
• To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
• To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.

Examples

• He keeps his feed in steel drums to prevent the mice from chewing holes in the feed-sacks.
• I popped the gum into my mouth and gave it a chew.
• Make sure to chew thoroughly, and don't talk with your mouth full!
• Phillip purchased a bag of licorice chews at the drugstore.
• Some players CHEW on their options for a long time, strategizing every Scrabble move.
• The ballplayers sat on the bench watching the rain, glumly working their chews.
• The first time he chewed tobacco, he swallowed his chew and got extremely sick.
• The harsh desert wind and sand had chewed the stump into ragged strips of wood.
• The professor stood at the blackboard, chalk in hand, and chewed the question the student had asked.
• The school had banned chew and smokes from the school grounds, even for adults.
• The steak was tough to chew as it had been cooked too long.

Synonyms

chaw, chewing, cud, jaw, manducate, manduction, masticate, mastication, plug, quid, wad, bite, chavel, chomp, contemplate, crunch, grind, mull, muse, ponder, pulverize, rip, ruminate, shred, tear

Related Words

pa chew cheng, CHEWABLE

Anagrams of chew