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chews on

chews on is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 chews on

What is chews on the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Chews on is the third-person singular simple present indicative of chew on.

Words near chews on in the dictionary

  1. chewre
  2. chewren
  3. chewres
  4. chews
  5. chews off
  6. chews on
  7. chews on one's nails
  8. chews out
  9. chews over
  10. chews the cud
  11. chews the fat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chews 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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