1. Biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
   "Proper chewing aids digestion";
   - chew, mastication, manduction

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

Derived forms: chewings

Type of: change of state, grate, grind

Part of: eating, feeding

Encyclopedia: Chewing