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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"
Specialized synonyms: Castigate, Chasten, Chastise, Correct, Objurgate, Brush Down, Tell Off
Generic synonyms: Criticise, Criticize, Knock, Pick Apart
Derivative terms: Chiding, Lecture, Rebuke, Rebuker, Reprimand, Reproof, Scolder, Scolding
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
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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