chew

1. 1.

   chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth

   “He jawed his bubble gum”

   “Chew your food and don't swallow it!”

   “The cows were masticating the grass”

   Synonymsmasticatemanducatejaw

   Broadergrate

   Narrowerchompchampmumblechawcrunchgnaw

Other forms of chew

plural

chews·

past tense

chewed·

present participle

chewing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chew

What does chew mean?

chew means "a wad of something chewable as tobacco". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chew?

chew has 1 syllable: chew. In IPA it is /ˈtʃu/.

What is another word for chew?

Close synonyms include chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chew a common word?

chew is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with chew?

3 words rhyme with chew. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.