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chew up

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word chew up.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambastverb

    censure severely or angrily

    "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"

Wiktionary

  1. chew upverb

    to chew so as to make something pulpy

  2. chew upverb

    to ruin (especially land), by digging

  3. chew upverb

    to defeat utterly

ChatGPT

  1. chew up

    To chew up means to grind or crush something, typically food, with one's teeth. In a broader sense, it can also be used figuratively to refer to experiencing, processing, or completing something with difficulty.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of chew up in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of chew up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of chew up in a Sentence

  1. Chairman Warren Buffett:

    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.

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