To bite and crush food with your teeth to make it easier to swallow.
Shared component: chew · to bite and grind with the teeth
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chew
to bite and grind with the teeth
Related forms: chew · 3 words in this dictionary
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Shared components, not spelling prefixes(of food) needing to be chewed a lot before it can be swallowed
chew+y
Shared component: chew · to bite and grind with the teeth
(of food or medicine) able to be chewed easily, often designed to be chewed rather than swallowed whole.
chew+able
Shared component: chew · to bite and grind with the teeth