chew
1. a wad of something chewable as tobacco
• Syn:
chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad
• Derivationally related forms:
wad (for: wad), chaw (for: chaw)
• Hypernyms:
morsel, bit, bite
2. biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
• Syn:
chewing, mastication, manduction
• Derivationally related forms:
masticate (for: mastication), chew (for: chewing), chewy
• Hypernyms:
change of state
• Hyponyms:
chomping, mumbling, gumming, rumination
• Part Holonyms:
eating, feeding
chew (food);
to bite and grind with the teeth (Freq. 10)
- He jawed his bubble gum
- Chew your food and don't swallow it!
- The cows were masticating the grass
• Syn:
masticate, manducate, jaw
• Derivationally related forms:
jaw (for: jaw), mastication (for: masticate), chewer, chewing
• Hypernyms:
grate, grind
• Hyponyms:
chomp, champ, mumble, gum, chaw,
crunch, munch, gnaw
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
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