0 past simple and past participle of chew
1 to crush food into smaller, softer pieces with the teeth so that it can be swallowed:
She chewed each delicious mouthful as slowly as she could, prolonging the pleasure.
She's always chewing gum.
Huddling for warmth, they chewed lumps of pemmican and raw bacon; without fuel there was no water to drink.
In moderate dysphagia, they may need to modify the diet to softer food, which is more easily chewed or swallowed.
The leaves were chewed and the soluble contents extracted by the bats.
