chewing
Meaning of chewing
verb
- To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
Make sure to chew thoroughly, and don't talk with your mouth full!
- To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
He keeps his feed in steel drums to prevent the mice from chewing holes in the feed-sacks.
- To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
The professor stood at the blackboard, chalk in hand, and chewed the question the student had asked.
- The act by which something is chewed on; mastication.
- The consumption of (the juice from) the khat plant.
- The consumption of loose leaf tobacco juice from tobacco plants by chewing leaves near the cheek.
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Hyphenation of chewing
chew-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- chewing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
chewing synonyms
Meaning chew:
Meaning :
bite, chavel, chomp, crunch, masticate, grind, pulverize, rip, shred, tear, contemplate, mull, muse, ponder, ruminate
Translation of chewing
- Spanish: masticación
- Italian: masticazione
- Portuguese: mastigação
- French: mastication
Words that rhyme with chewing
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