Definition of Chew up

1. Verb. Censure severely or angrily. "Sam cannot chew up Sue "; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"


Definition of Chew up

1. Verb. (transitive) to chew so as to make something pulpy ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) to ruin (especially land), by digging ¹

3. Verb. (US idiomatic transitive) to defeat utterly ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chew Up

chevrotains
chevvy
chevy
chevying
chew
chew off
chew on
chew on the scenery
chew out
chew over
chew the cud
chew the fat
chew the scenery
chew toys
chew up (current term)
chew up the scenery
chewability
chewable
chewed
chewed over
chewed the fat
chewer
chewers
chewet
cheweth
chewets
chewie
chewie on ya boot
chewier

Literary usage of Chew up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Commercial Pharmacy: Intended as a Reference Book and a Text by Daniel Charles O'Connor (1912)
"Yet you will let rats and mice chew up chamois skins, get into a barrel of salted nuts, chew up empty candy boxes, gnaw holes into the herb drawers, ..."

2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1902)
"Cadets have been required to chew up as high as four quinine pills at a time, and, after thoroughly masticating, swallow them. ..."

3. The American Rose Annual by American Rose Society (1918)
"A plant can't chew up its food and reduce it to a liquid as do we and the animals, yet it is essential that moisture in sufficient amount be brought in ..."

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