Usually means: Masticating food with teeth, saliva.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word chewing:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. chewing: Merriam-Webster
  2. chewing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. chewing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Chewing, chewing: Wordnik
  5. chewing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. chewing: Wiktionary
  7. Chewing, chewing: Dictionary.com
  8. chewing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Chewing (Input Method), Chewing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Chewing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. chewing: Rhymezone
  12. Chewing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. chewing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. chewing: FreeDictionary.org
  15. chewing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. chewing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chewing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. chewing: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chewing: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. chewing: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. chewing: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (chewing)

▸ noun:  The act by which something is chewed on; mastication.
▸ noun:  (drugs) The consumption of (the juice from) the khat plant.
▸ noun:  (drugs) The consumption of loose leaf tobacco juice from tobacco plants by chewing leaves near the cheek.

Similar:
mastication, masticatory, mastification, masticater, morsitation, masticatory force, manducation, demastication, mouthcoating, midchew, more...

Opposite:
swallowing, gulping, ingesting

Types:
bubble gum, gum, mints, tobacco, chewing tobacco, spit, more...

Phrases:
chewing gum, chewing on, chewing tobacco, chewing up, tobacco chewing, more...

Adjectives:
gum, betel, tobacco, thorough, much, cud, little, constant, proper, vigorous, excessive

Colors:
    mint green,     bubblegum pink,     cherry red,     lemon yellow,     lime green, more...



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Similar:
mastication, masticatory, mastification, masticater, morsitation, masticatory force, manducation, demastication, mouthcoating, midchew, more...

Opposite:
swallowing, gulping, ingesting

Types:
bubble gum, gum, mints, tobacco, chewing tobacco, spit, more...

Phrases:
chewing gum, chewing on, chewing tobacco, chewing up, tobacco chewing, chewing gums, chewing lice, chewing cycle, cud chewing, chewing louse, chewing out, chewing over, chewing the cud, chewing the fat, more...

Adjectives:
gum, betel, tobacco, thorough, much, cud, little, constant, proper, vigorous, excessive

Colors:
    mint green,     bubblegum pink,     cherry red,     lemon yellow,     lime green, more...



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