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chew up

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chew someone or something up
to damage or ruin someone or something by pinching, grinding, biting, etc. Stay away from the mower blade or it will chew you up. The lawn mower chewed up the flowers.
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chew something up

to grind food with the teeth until it can be swallowed. You had better chew that stuff up well. Please chew up your food well.
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I can chew up any such milksoppy pup as that, and I will.
I'll put that brute where he won't chew up any more able seamen.
Now, they surely must chew up those old stubs, and dry and sell them for smoking-tobacco.
 
 
 
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