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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow;
[syn: chew, chewing, mastication, manduction]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

chew \chew\ (ch[udd]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chewed (ch[udd]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Chewing.] [As ce['o]wan, akin to D. kauwen, G. kauen. Cf. Chaw, Jaw.] 1. To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate. [1913 Webster] 2. To ruminate mentally; to meditate on. [1913 Webster] He chews revenge, abjuring his offense. --Prior. [1913 Webster] To chew the cud, to chew the food over again, as a cow; to ruminate; hence, to meditate. [1913 Webster] Every beast the parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. --Deut. xxiv. 6. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

chewing \chewing\ n. biting your food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow. Syn: chew, mastication. [WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

chewing n 1: biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow [syn: chew, chewing, mastication, manduction]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

83 Moby Thesaurus words for "chewing": appetite, ass-reaming, bawling-out, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, chain-smoke, consumption, cropping, cud-chewing, cussing-out, deglutition, devouring, devourment, dieting, dining, drag, dressing, dressing-down, eating, epulation, feasting, feeding, gluttony, gobbling, going-over, grazing, habitual smoking, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness, hunger, ingestion, jacking-up, licking, manducation, manducatory, mastication, masticatory, messing, munching, nibbling, nicotine addiction, nicotinic, nicotinism, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy, pantophagy, pasture, pasturing, pecking, puff, raking-down, reaming, reaming-out, regalement, relishing, roasting, ruminant, ruminating, rumination, savoring, setdown, smoke, smoking, smoking habit, snuffy, speaking-to, tabacism, tabacosis, tabagism, talking-to, tasting, tobacco, tobaccoism, tobaccolike, tobaccoy, vegetarianism, what-for, wolfing