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n. - Biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow.

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Usage examples (29)
  • Verb (used with object) : The faulty paper feeder chewed the letters up. ,The puppy chewed a hole in my slipper. ,He chewed the problem over in his mind
  • Ken Fisher: One point that I've been making recently is that we're in a period that I refer to as chewing the cud.
  • We are nearly positive that this afternoon parent/teacher ass-chewing is going to offer us a few solutions to our disruptive kid problem.
  • They chew and swallow their food and are called chewing insects.
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