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1. Chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
   "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"
   - masticate, manducate, jaw

1. A wad of something chewable as tobacco
   - chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad
    
2. Biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
   - chewing, mastication, manduction

Derived forms: chewing, chews, chewed

See also: chewer, chewy

Type of: bit, bite, change of state, grate, grind, morsel

Part of: eating, feeding

Encyclopedia: Chew Chew, Samuel