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chewing

/tʃˈuɪŋ/noun2 syllables

Chewing means: biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow.

Synonyms for chewing3

noun, as in biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow

chew, mastication, manduction

What does chewing mean?1

noun

1

biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with chewing?13

three syllables

pursuingreviewingrenewingundoingdebuting
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Chewing in a sentence

  • Stop chewing so much gum, you're gonna mess up your mouth.DJ_Saidez
  • Other times, they felt like something was gnawing or chewing on their feet.Hybrid
  • Stop chewing so much gum, or you'll mess up your mouth.DJ_Saidez
  • No matter when you meet him, he is always chewing gum.unknown
  • The nervous girl is in the habit of chewing the end of her pencil.CK
  • He has the bad habit of chewing his pencil.J_S
  • I found the dog chewing on a razor blade.Eccles17
  • Chewing on fennel seeds can keep your breath fresh.cazort

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of chewing

as a noun

plural
chewings