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chew

Definition

  • verb: to use your teeth to cut food into small pieces before you swallow it
  • verb: to crush, grind, or gnaw (as food) with or as if with the teeth
  • often + 'on'
  • synonyms: masticate, ruminate, meditate

Examples

  • They would sit for hours and 'chew the fat'. [='chat, shoot the breeze']

  • I really 'bit off more than I could chew' when I took on this project.

  • We were taught to 'chew' our food thoroughly before swallowing.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) -No! Yes! and guard them with your life. Yes, chef. Yes. Yes, I know. Branch, we have to save him! Save him from what? His stomach? We didn't see him chew. We didn't see him swallow! Face it, poppy. Sometimes people go into other people's mouths... And they don't come out. If we go after creek now, (..)
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