chew up

Questions about chew up

What does chew up mean?

chew up means "censure severely or angrily".

What is another word for chew up?

Close synonyms include call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce. 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 up a common word?

chew up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.