chew

chew is a 4-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 12 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.
2. transitive verb. To ruminate mentally; to meditate on.
3. intransitive verb. To perform the action of biting and grinding with the teeth; to ruminate; to meditate.
4. noun. That which is chewed; that which is held in the mouth at once; a cud.
5. noun. biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow

   Synonyms: chewing, manduction, mastication

6. noun. a wad of something chewable as tobacco

   Synonyms: chaw, cud, plug, quid, wad

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

   "He jawed his bubble gum"

   "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"

   Synonyms: jaw, manducate, masticate

Synonyms

chewing, manduction, mastication, chaw, cud, plug, quid, wad, jaw, manducate, masticate

Common word forms

chews, chewed, chewer, chewing, chewable

Words from these letters

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