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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 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.
We can walk and chew gum.
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.
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.
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.
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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