Usually means: Bite and grind with teeth.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. chew: Merriam-Webster
  2. chew: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chew: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chew: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chew: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chew, chew: Wordnik
  7. chew: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Chew, chew: Wiktionary
  9. chew: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chew: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chew: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Chew, chew: Dictionary.com
  13. chew: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. chew: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Chew (comics), Chew (disambiguation), Chew (film), Chew (hundred), Chew (surname), Chew, The Chew: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Chew: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. chew: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. chew: Rhymezone
  19. chew: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. chew: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Chew: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. chew: FreeDictionary.org
  23. chew: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. chew: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. chew: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. chew: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. chew: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chew: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CHEW: Acronym Finder
  2. chew: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chew (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. chew, chew: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Chew, The Chew, chew (copenhagen): Urban Dictionary
  4. Chew: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

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  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See chewable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.
verb:  To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
verb:  (informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
noun:  The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
noun:  Level of chewiness.
noun:  A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
noun:  (informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
noun:  (countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
noun:  (uncountable, informal) The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A river in Somerset, England.

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