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Verb: chew up
Usage: N. Amer
  1. Censure severely or angrily
    "The deputy chewed up the Prime Minister"
    - call on the carpet [US], take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out [N. Amer], have words, lambaste, lambast, ream [N. Amer]

Derived forms: chews up, chewing up, chewed up

Type of: criticise [Brit], criticize, damn, knock, pick apart

Nearest

Cheviots
chèvre
chevron
chevrotain
chevvy
chevy
chew
chew out
chew over
chew the fat
chew up
Chewa
chewable
chewer
chewing
chewing gum
chewing out
chewink
chewy
Cheyenne
Cheyne-Stokes respiration