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Antonyms for chew
tʃuchew
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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
Antonyms:
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
How to use chew in a sentence?
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.
We're trying to walk and chew gum at the same time here, providing support to the immediate acute needs for oxygen support in the Indian Health System, but then also simultaneously trying to find ways to ramp up the production of medical grade oxygen and transportation of medical grade oxygen within India, so that that can be then the more enduring solution to the problem, the abruptness with which India went from bad to worse was striking.
Itseems like they kind of want to walk and chew gum at the same time, they want to focus on security and environmentalism.
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.
He explained it in a way that I wasn't expecting, and I have to kind of chew on it a little bit.
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