|
|
1. (v.t.) chew
to crush or grind with the teeth; masticate.
2. chew
to tear or mangle, as if by chewing (often fol. by up):
The sorting machine chewed up the letters.
3. chew
to make by or as if by chewing:
The puppy chewed a hole in the rug.
4. chew
to meditate on; consider at length (often fol. by over):
to chew a problem over; .
5. (v.i.) chew
to perform the act of masticating.
6. chew
Informal. to chew tobacco, esp. habitually.
7. chew
Slang. to scold harshly.
8. (n.) chew
an act or instance of chewing.
9. chew
something chewed or intended for chewing.
|
| Definition of 'Chew' |
Princeton's WordNet |
|
1. (noun) chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad
a wad of something chewable as tobacco
2. (verb) chew, chewing, mastication, manduction
biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
3. (verb) chew, masticate, manducate, jaw
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"
|
|
|
1. (verb) chew
to bite food in the mouth
Chew well before you swallow.; chewing gum all the time
|
| Definition of 'Chew' |
Webster Dictionary |
|
1. (noun) Chew
that which is chewed; that which is held in the mouth at once; a cud
2. (verb) Chew
to bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate
3. (verb) Chew
to ruminate mentally; to meditate on
4. (verb) Chew
to perform the action of biting and grinding with the teeth; to ruminate; to meditate
|
|
|
Sense: to break (food etc) with the teeth before swallowing
If you chew your food properly it is easier to digest.
|
 Afrikaans: kou |
 Arabic: يَمْضُغ |
 Bulgarian: дъвча |
 Brazilian: mastigar |
 Czech: žvýkat |
 German: kauen |
 Danish: tygge |
 Greek: μασώ |
 Estonian: närima |
 Farsi: جویدن |
 Finnish: pureskella |
 French: mãcher |
 Hebrew: לִלעוֹס |
 Hindi: चबाना |
 Croatian: žvakati |
 Hungarian: (meg)rág |
 Indonesian: mengunyah |
 Icelandic: tyggja |
 Italian: masticare |
 Japanese: 噛む |
 Korean: 씹다 |
 Lithuanian: kramtyti |
 Latvian: košļāt |
 Malay: kunyah |
 Dutch: kauwen |
 Norwegian: tygge |
 Polish: żuć |
 Persian: جویدن |
 Pashto: ژوول |
 Portuguese: mastigar |
 Romanian: a mesteca |
 Russian: жевать |
 Slovak: žuť |
 Slovenian: žvečiti |
 Serbian: žvakati |
 Swedish: tugga |
 Thai: เคี้ยว |
 Turkish: çiğnemek |
 Taiwanese: 嚼 |
 Ukrainian: жувати |
 Urdu: چبانا |
 Vietnamese: nhai |
 Chinese: 嚼 |
Get even more translations for Chew...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Alternative search options for 'Chew' |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Definitions of Chew 
