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- [choo]
- /tʃu/
- /tʃuː/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [choo]
- /tʃu/
Definitions of chew word
- verb chew When you chew food, you use your teeth to break it up in your mouth so that it becomes easier to swallow. 3
- verb chew If you chew gum or tobacco, you keep biting it and moving it around your mouth to taste the flavour of it. You do not swallow it. 3
- verb chew If you chew your lips or your fingernails, you keep biting them because you are nervous. 3
- verb chew If a person or animal chews an object, they bite it with their teeth. 3
- countable noun chew A chew is a sweet that you have to chew very hard before it becomes soft. 3
- verb chew to work the jaws and teeth in order to grind (food); masticate 3
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Origin of chew
First appearance:
before 1000 One of the 6% oldest English words
before 1000; Middle English chewen, Old English cēowan; cognate with Old High German kiuwan (German kauen)
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Parts of speech for Chew
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
chew popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 91% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for chew
verb chew
- bite — If you bite something, you use your teeth to cut into it, for example in order to eat it or break it. If an animal or person bites you, they use their teeth to hurt or injure you.
- gnaw — to bite or chew on, especially persistently.
- nibble — to bite off small bits.
- chomp — If a person or animal chomps their way through food or chomps on food, they chew it noisily.
- crunch — If you crunch something hard, such as a sweet, you crush it noisily between your teeth.
noun chew
- portion — a part of any whole, either separated from or integrated with it: I read a portion of the manuscript.
- plug — an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.
- wad — a soft, earthy, black to dark-brown mass of manganese oxide minerals.
Antonyms for chew
verb chew
- ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- forget — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
- neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
- dismiss — to direct (an assembly of persons) to disperse or go: I dismissed the class early.
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