1. [N. Amer, informal] Censure severely or angrily
   "The boss chewed up the employee for missing the deadline";
   - call on the carpet [US, informal], take to task, rebuke, rag [informal], trounce, lecture, reprimand, jaw [informal], dress down [informal], call down [informal], scold, chide, berate, bawl out [informal], chew out [N. Amer, informal], have words, lambaste, lambast, ream [N. Amer, informal], wig [Brit, informal], carpet [Brit, informal]
    
2. To destroy or damage by chewing
   "The puppy chewed up my favourite shoes"

Derived forms: chews up, chewing up, chewed up

Type of: criticise [Brit], criticize, damn [informal], knock [informal], pick apart