chew

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  1. transitive verb To bite and grind with the teeth; masticate.
  2. transitive verb To meditate on; ponder: chew a problem over.
  3. intransitive verb To make a crushing and grinding motion with the teeth.
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  • Gruber's jaw hung open in mid-chew, the wad of gum gleaming pinkly between his teeth, pale eyes staring from the badge to Liam and back again. —  Stabenow, Dana - [Liam Campbell 01] - Fire and Ice
  • Campbell you've bitten more than you can chew, your harsh totalitarian policies are killing people, now you must pay in the only way a decent people would deal with a tyrant. —  Tyee - Home
  • The fact that India produces more human capital than it can chew has been the US advantage but there is a shift in Indians 'thinking and many are taking the home route. —  BusinessWeek.com --
  • The FDA has ruled that these are types of oral tobacco products much like snuff and chew, and are not smoking cessation aids.
  • This woman can't chew, and yet Hoopz is hitting her up for cash. —  Vh1 Blog
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chew:   chews ·  chewed ·  chewing
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English cheuen, from Old English cēowan.

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  1. Early modern English and modern colloq. and dial. also chaw; from Middle English chewen, cheowen, from Anglo-Saxon ceówan (preterit ceáw, plural cuwon, past participle cowen) = Dutch kaauwen = Middle Low German keuwen = Old High German chiuwan, Middle High German kiuwen, German kauen, prob. (with change of c to t, cf. crane = Icelandic trani, etc.) = Icelandic tyggja = Swedish tugga = Danish tygge, chew, = Russian zhevatĭ = Old Bulgarian zivati, chew. Cf. chavel, chawl, chowl, jowl.
  2. from chew, v.
 

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