chew

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

chew UK US [tʃuː] verb intransitive or transitive [ chews chewing chewed ]
1. <A > to crush food into smaller, softer pieces with the teeth so that it can be swallowed
• This meat is difficult to chew.
• You don't chew your food enough - that's why you get indigestion.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Biting, chewing and swallowing ↑Eating
2. <A > to bite something with your teeth, usually in order to taste its flavour
• Would you like some gum to chew?
• She gave the children some sweets to chew (on) during the long car journey.
• She sat in the dentist's waiting room, nervously chewing (at) (= biting) her nails.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Biting, chewing and swallowing ↑Eating
 
• She chewed each delicious mouthful as slowly as she could, prolonging the pleasure.
• Make sure you chew your food properly.
• The dog was chewing happily on the bone.
• His dog has chewed my slippers.
• She's always chewing gum.
Idiom: chew the fat
Phrasal Verbs: chew somebody out ▪ chew something over ▪ chew something up
 
noun countable
1. an act of chewing something
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Biting, chewing and swallowing ↑Eating
2. a hard sweet that gets softer the more you chew it
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Sweets

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  chewing, mastication, manduction, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad, masticate, manducate, jaw