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# chewing

«chewing» in Mova's school dictionary: **crushing food with your teeth to make it soft enough to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb form (chew, chews, chewed, chewing); noun (chewing); adjective (chewing, as in chewing gum)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Chewing means crushing food with your teeth to make it soft enough to swallow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chewing/#m1)

2) Chewing also means biting on something again and again, like a dog chewing a bone or a child chewing a pencil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chewing/#m2)

3) Chewing can also mean chewing something such as tobacco or gum that you do not swallow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chewing/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on digestion, chewing is the first step: teeth break food into small pieces and saliva starts to digest it. In health and manners, chew with your mouth closed and don't talk with food in your mouth; chewing slowly helps avoid choking. Puppies chew things when their teeth grow. Phrases: chewing gum, chew on, chew over (think about), bite off more than you can chew.

### examples

- Keep chewing until the food is soft. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chewing/#x1)
- Please stop chewing with your mouth open. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chewing/#x2)
- The puppy is chewing my slipper! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chewing/#x3)
- Chewing your food well helps digestion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chewing/#x4)
- No chewing gum in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chewing/#x5)
- He was chewing his pencil while he thought. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chewing/#x6)
- Cows spend hours chewing grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chewing/#x7)
- Chew carefully so you don't choke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chewing/#x8)
- He lay on the grass chewing tobacco, when the gazelle trotted up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chewing/#x9)

### note

Chew is regular: chewed, chewing. «Chewy» describes food that needs a lot of chewing, like toffee. «Chew it over» means think about it carefully. Bite = cut into food once; chew = grind it again and again.

### In the corpora

- [The Camel came by "chewing milkweed most 'scruciating idle" and laughed at them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/75-justso-camel-hump/10/)
- [Never disturb a dog that is eating, sleeping, chewing a toy or looking after puppies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/22-meeting-a-dog-safely/12/)
- [Good manners at the table include chewing with your mouth closed and not grabbing food across other people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/17/)
- [Many dog bites happen when someone touches a dog while it is eating, sleeping or chewing a toy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/23/)
- [Rabbit teeth keep growing all their lives and are worn down by chewing hay.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chewing» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chewing/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.