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chewing up

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

Meaning of chew up

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To chew so as to make something pulpy or tangled.
    • She had to chew up the food for him because his teeth are too small.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To ruin (especially land), by digging.
  3. (US, slang, transitive) To defeat utterly.
    • The Yankees chewed up the Dodgers.
  4. (slang, transitive) To upset or bother (someone).

Questions about chewing up

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

Words near chewing up in the dictionary

  1. chewing the fat
  2. chewing the meat and spitting out the bones
  3. chewing the scenery
  4. chewing tobacco
  5. chewing tobaccos
  6. chewing up
  7. chewing up and spitting out
  8. chewing-ball
  9. chewing-balls
  10. chewing-gum
  11. chewing-gumless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chewing up (page history and authors); chew up (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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