Word.ws English Dictionary

prechew

prechew verb: to chew (food) in advance.

Verb

prechew (third-person singular simple present prechews, present participle prechewing, simple past and past participle prechewed)

  1. (transitive) To chew (food) in advance.
    • In “A Man Among Wolves,” a bizarre and riveting nature documentary that will be shown tonight on the National Geographic Channel, a British former gamekeeper named Shaun Ellis feeds wolf cubs prechewed food from his own mouth.2007 April 16, Susan Stewart, “Kiss and Howl: This Man Is a Wolf’s Best Friend”, in New York Times

Forms of prechew

third-person singular presentprechews
present participleprechewing
past participleprechewed
pastprechewed

Origin of prechew

From pre- + chew.

Questions about prechew

What does prechew mean?
Prechew means to chew (food) in advance.
What part of speech is prechew?
Prechew is a verb.
What is the past tense of prechew?
The past tense of prechew is prechewed.

Words near prechew in the dictionary

  1. prechecks
  2. precheliceral
  3. prechemical
  4. prechemotherapeutic
  5. prechemotherapy
  6. prechew
  7. prechewed
  8. prechewing
  9. prechews
  10. prechiamatic
  11. prechiasmal

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: prechew (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “prechew.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/prechew. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.