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to chew
01
to bite and crush food into smaller pieces with the teeth to make it easier to swallow
Transitive: to chew food
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
chew
3rd person singular
chews
Present participle
chewing
Past simple
chewed
Past participle
chewed
Examples
He chews his food slowly to aid digestion.
Chew
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Abstract
Composition
Simple
Countable
Plural form
chews
02
a wad of something chewable as tobacco
Lexical Tree
chewer
chewing
chew
