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Synonyms for chew
tʃuchew

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  1. 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, muse

  2. chewverb

    Chewing tobacco.

    The school had banned chew and smokes from the school grounds, even for adults.

    Synonyms:
    ruminate, contemplate, ponder, muse, mull

  3. chewverb

    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, muse

  4. chewverb

    Synonyms:
    masticate, bite, chomp, crunch

  5. chewverb

    Synonyms:
    rip, shred, pulverize, tear, grind

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. chew

    Synonyms:
    masticate, munch, eat

    Antonyms:
    gorge, bolt whole

Princeton's WordNet2.0 / 1 vote

  1. 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, manduction

  2. chew, 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 manduction

  3. chew, 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 Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. chewverb

    Synonyms:
    masticate, manducate, MUNCH

  2. chewverb

    Synonyms:
    champ, bite, gnaw

  3. chewverb

    Synonyms:
    meditate, ruminate, muse on, reflect upon, chew the cud upon

  4. chewverb

    Synonyms:
    meditate, ruminate, muse, reflect

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. chewverb

    Synonyms:
    masticate, munch, crunch, craunch, champ

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "chew":

    mince, qiu

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How to use chew in a sentence?

  1. Rocket Lab:

    We didn't want to bite off more than we could chew, the pilots were well briefed : If anything was different from the simulation that they felt that they weren't happy with, then the most important thing is everybody's safety. ... And that's exactly what they executed. So they got a great catch. And and they just didn't like the way the the load was feeling.

  2. Nancy Pelosi:

    We can walk and chew gum.

  3. Robert E. Lee:

    I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

  4. Jeremy Konyndyk:

    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.

  5. Ashok Ghosh:

    When I joined the cancer hospital, I started checking blood, hair and nail samples of cancer patients and found they have very clear-cut symptoms of arsenic poisoning, i saw 6 and 7-year-old children coming with cancer. These children don't chew tobacco or smoke. It was very disturbing, and I could not sleep. Slowly, I adjusted.


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