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chewing on

chewing on is the present participle and gerund of chew on.

Meaning of chew on

Verb

chew on (third-person singular simple present chews on, present participle chewing on, simple past and past participle chewed on)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chew, on.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To consider, to ponder.
    • Once you chew on it that way, you start thinking, jeez, maybe QAnon was almost inevitable.2020 September 22, Clive Thompson, “QAnon Is Like a Game—a Most Dangerous Game”, in Wired, →ISSN

Questions about chewing on

What is chewing on the present participle and gerund of?
Chewing on is the present participle and gerund of chew on.

Words near chewing on in the dictionary

  1. chewing gumless
  2. chewing gums
  3. chewing lice
  4. chewing louse
  5. chewing off
  6. chewing on
  7. chewing on one's nails
  8. chewing out
  9. chewing over
  10. chewing sponge
  11. chewing sponges

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chewing on (page history and authors); chew on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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