| 单词 | chew |
| 释义 | chew (once / 657 pages) vn When you chew, you use your teeth to grind up food before you swallow it. It can be pretty unpleasant to watch your brother chew his pizza with his mouth open. Usually when people chew, they chew up a bite of food or chew on a candy bar. You can also chew your nails or chew your lower lip — you're not actually eating something, but just using your teeth to gnaw or bite. You can also use the word chew figuratively, to mean "think or mull over." It comes from an Old English root, ceowan, "to gnaw or chew." WORD FAMILYchew: chewable, chewed, chewer, chewing, chews, chewy+/chewable: unchewable/chewer: chewers/chewing: chewings/chewy: chewier, chewiest USAGE EXAMPLESThe thick slices of overnight-smoked brisket in the Stacked sandwich are tender enough to chew through without dragging the whole pile off the bun. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) Instead, it’s both virtuosic and ambiguous, yielding more to chew on than most videos of its era or ours. Time(Dec 28, 2016) A red squirrel sat in the feeder, chewing with gusto. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1v chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth Chew your food and don't swallow it! Syn|Hypo|Hyper jaw, manducate, masticate champ, chomp chew noisily champchafe at the bit, like horses gum, mumblegrind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty chawchew without swallowing crunch, munchchew noisily gnawbite or chew on with the teeth grate, grind make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together 2n biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow Syn|Hypo|Hyper chewing, manduction, mastication chomping the act of chewing noisily gumming, mumblingineffectual chewing (as if without teeth) rumination(of ruminants) chewing (the cud) change of state the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics 3n a wad of something chewable as tobacco Syn|Hyper chaw, cud, plug, quid, wad bit, bite, morsel a small amount of solid food; a mouthful |
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