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Synonyms for chew
tʃuchew
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Wiktionary
chewverb
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.
Phillip purchased a bag of licorice chews at the drugstore.
Synonyms:
mull, contemplate, ruminate, ponder, musechewverb
Chewing tobacco.
The school had banned chew and smokes from the school grounds, even for adults.
Synonyms:
ruminate, contemplate, ponder, muse, mullchewverb
A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
The professor stood at the blackboard, chalk in hand, and chewed the question the student had asked.
Synonyms:
mull, contemplate, ponder, ruminate, musechewverb
chewverb
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
chew
Synonyms:
masticate, munch, eatAntonyms:
gorge, bolt whole
Princeton's WordNet
chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wadnoun
a wad of something chewable as tobacco
Synonyms:
tidy sum, pot, peck, quid, mastication, hype, lot, quid pro quo, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, hack, fire hydrant, chewing, pile, muckle, stack, rechewed food, mass, spark plug, good deal, male plug, mountain, sight, stopple, plenty, deal, plug, mess, jade, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, fireplug, heap, great deal, pound, chaw, ballyhoo, mint, stopper, sparking plug, spate, cud, pound sterling, nag, hoopla, manductionchew, chewing, mastication, manductionverb
biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
Synonyms:
quid, chaw, manduction, plug, chewing, cud, mastication, wad, sacramental manductionchew, masticate, manducate, jawverb
chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
"He jawed his bubble gum"; "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"; "The cows were masticating the grass"
Synonyms:
bawl out, chitchat, chide, yack, masticate, remonstrate, shoot the breeze, yack away, take to task, gossip, confab, reproof, manducate, lambaste, jaw, chit-chat, claver, lambast, chew the fat, chew out, berate, natter, trounce, visit, dress down, have words, chew up, call down, reprimand, rattle on, scold, confabulate, rebuke, rag, yap away, chat, chatter, call on the carpet, chaffer, lecture
Dictionary of English Synonymes
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#399 | visit | |
#748 | lot | |
#962 | chat | |
#1274 | deal | |
#1521 | mountain | |
#2009 | mass | |
#2728 | eat | |
#3137 | plug | |
#4316 | lecture | |
#4715 | plenty | |
#4910 | pound | |
#4976 | sight | |
#5100 | pot | |
#5177 | mint | |
#5702 | stack | |
#7410 | batch | |
#7432 | rip | |
#8009 | mess | |
#8412 | hack | |
#8848 | bite | |
#9152 | gossip | |
#9356 | tear | |
#9715 | jade | |
#10302 | pile | |
#13488 | hype | |
#13550 | muse | |
#14364 | heap | |
#14387 | jaw | |
#15058 | flock | |
#15427 | grind | |
#15810 | rag | |
#17739 | peck | |
#17819 | chew | |
#18732 | crunch | |
#18842 | chatter | |
#20713 | chewing | |
#21748 | raft | |
#21972 | stopper | |
#22194 | slew | |
#22652 | ponder | |
#24129 | nag | |
#27578 | contemplate | |
#28868 | shred | |
#32137 | mull | |
#32259 | quid | |
#32436 | munch | |
#36659 | wad | |
#44368 | reprimand | |
#45992 | rebuke | |
#48006 | spate | |
#50453 | mince | |
#53513 | cud | |
#57335 | chomp | |
#59535 | qiu | |
#65843 | hoopla | |
#73551 | scold | |
#96645 | ruminate | |
#101001 | chitchat | |
#105484 | reproof | |
#116298 | berate | |
#122207 | natter | |
#122461 | confab | |
#123754 | ballyhoo | |
#126122 | chide | |
#127323 | mickle | |
#144808 | trounce | |
#146470 | mastication | |
#149105 | muckle | |
#153240 | chaw | |
#154513 | yack | |
#163107 | passel | |
#189313 | claver | |
#201413 | hatful | |
#201455 | pulverize | |
#235554 | remonstrate | |
#284627 | lambaste | |
#304391 | lambast | |
#319135 | chaffer |
How to use chew in a sentence?
We're going to spend a lot of time in Michigan, we think that's a very important state for us, and, you know, we can chew gum and walk at the same time.
He explained it in a way that I wasn't expecting, and I have to kind of chew on it a little bit.
The Saudis had made a couple missteps on their airstrikes … it seems that they have bitten off more than they can chew diplomatically, in terms of what the optics of what the operation might look like.
Don't talk chum,chew Topps gum
We made that decision in terms of the airline business. We took money out of the business basically even at a substantial loss, we will not fund a company that — where we think that it is going to chew up money in the future.
Translations for chew
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- م, مضغArabic
- çeynəməkAzerbaijani
- жавацьBelarusian
- дъвчаBulgarian
- masticar, mastegarCatalan, Valencian
- žvýkatCzech
- cnoiWelsh
- gumle, tyggeDanish
- kauenGerman
- μασάωGreek
- remaĉi, maĉiEsperanto
- masticar, mascarSpanish
- murtxikatuBasque
- جویدنPersian
- mälli, karkki, pureskella, purutupakka, jauhaaFinnish
- mâcher, mordillerFrench
- cogainIrish
- cnuasaichScottish Gaelic
- mastigarGalician
- לעסHebrew
- ծամելArmenian
- masticarInterlingua
- masticareItalian
- 噛むJapanese
- ცოხნა, ღეჭვაGeorgian
- 깨물다, 씹다Korean
- mandūcō, masticōLatin
- kramtytiLithuanian
- košļātLatvian
- џвакаMacedonian
- kunyah, mamahMalay
- ဝါးBurmese
- चबाउनुNepali
- kauwenDutch
- żućPolish
- mascar, mastigarPortuguese
- mesteca, carameaRomanian
- жеватьRussian
- жвакати, žvakatiSerbo-Croatian
- žuťSlovak
- žvečitiSlovene
- tuggaSwedish
- నములుTelugu
- ลูกอมเคี้ยว, เคี้ยวThai
- çiğnemekTurkish
- жуватиUkrainian
- nhaiVietnamese
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