All chew synonyms
chew
C c verb chew
- bite β 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 β to bite or chew on, especially persistently.
- nibble β to bite off small bits.
- chomp β If a person or animal chomps their way through food or chomps on food, they chew it noisily.
- consider β If you consider a person or thing to be something, you have the opinion that this is what they are.
- mull β to study or ruminate; ponder.
- deliberate β If you do something that is deliberate, you planned or decided to do it beforehand, and so it happens on purpose rather than by chance.
- meditate β to engage in thought or contemplation; reflect.
- weigh β to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases.
- crunch β If you crunch something hard, such as a sweet, you crush it noisily between your teeth.
- scrunch β to crunch, crush, or crumple.
- rend β to separate into parts with force or violence: The storm rent the ship to pieces.
- munch β Charles, 1891β1968, French conductor in the U.S.
- gum β Often, gums. Also called gingiva. the firm, fleshy tissue covering the alveolar parts of either jaw and enveloping the necks of the teeth.
- gulp β to gasp or choke, as when taking large drafts of a liquid.
- dispatch β to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- masticate β Chew (food).
- chaw β to chew (tobacco), esp without swallowing it
- champ β A champ is the same as a champion.
- ruminate β to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- manducate β to chew; masticate; eat.
- ponder β to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate (often followed by over or upon).
- mull over β to study or ruminate; ponder.
- chew up β If you chew food up, you chew it until it is completely crushed or soft.
- grind β to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- crush β To crush something means to press it very hard so that its shape is destroyed or so that it breaks into pieces.
- squash β to press into a flat mass or pulp; crush: She squashed the flower under her heel.
noun chew
- portion β a part of any whole, either separated from or integrated with it: I read a portion of the manuscript.
- plug β 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 β a soft, earthy, black to dark-brown mass of manganese oxide minerals.