1. Bite repeatedly with the teeth, typically to grind food before swallowing it
   "Chew your food and don't swallow it!";
   - masticate, manducate [archaic]

1. Biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
   "You need to give tough meat a proper chew";
   - chewing, mastication, manduction
    
2. A wad of something chewable as tobacco
   "He always had a chew in his cheek";
   - chaw, quid, plug, wad

Derived forms: chewing, chews, chewed

Type of: bit, bite, change of state, grate, grind, morsel

Part of: eating, feeding

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