chewed
past simple and past participle ofchew
| 单词 | chewed |
| 释义 | chewed past simple and past participle ofchew chew verb[IorT] uk/tʃuː/us/tʃuː/B2 tocrushfoodintosmaller,softerpieceswith theteethso that it can beswallowed: Thismeatisdifficultto chew. You don't chewyourfoodenough - that's why you getindigestion. to chew food
B2 tobitesomething withyourteeth, usually inordertotasteitsflavour: Would you like somegumto chew? She gave thechildrensomesweetsto chew(on)during thelongcarjourney. Shesatin the dentist'swaitingroom,nervouslychewing(at)(=biting)hernails.
Biting, chewing & swallowing
Idiomschew the fat chew the scenery Phrasal verbschewsomeoneout chewsomethingover chewsomethingup Examplesofchewedchewed In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Huddling for warmth, theychewedlumps of pemmican and raw bacon; without fuel there was no water to drink. From theCambridge English Corpus In moderate dysphagia, they may need to modify the diet to softer food, which is more easilychewedor swallowed. From theCambridge English Corpus The leaves werechewedand the soluble contents extracted by the bats. From theCambridge English Corpus We should not be attempting to bite off a single piece of innovative information that cannot bechewedand carefully digested. From theCambridge English Corpus The eggs are then covered withchewedplant fibres. From theCambridge English Corpus The latter author indicated that the midrib and other veins werechewedonly in the basal portion of the leaves. From theCambridge English Corpus Beetles remained at the base of the inflorescence and the female flowers bore signs of having had their stigmaschewed. From theCambridge English Corpus At this, the spectators sitting in the packed court-room gallery reportedly let out a collective sigh of relief and manychewedtheir lips, holding back tears of emotion. From theCambridge English Corpus Percentage predation was determined by a direct count of scale remains, white marks of the spiracular bands and scale covers withchewededges or ragged holes in them. From theCambridge English Corpus Secondary caching may have been more common, however, as there was often no evidence ofchewedendocarps in the area of primary cache sites when the seed was recovered. From theCambridge English Corpus Shechewedup a green grape. From theCambridge English Corpus Almost all the visited inflorescences had damaged (chewed) stigmas; we believe that in the absence of sterile flowers in this species, the stigmas provide a nutritional reward for the pollinators. From theCambridge English Corpus However, preliminary analysis of some samples with a dissecting microscope revealed that the prey had beenchewedso thoroughly that species identification was very difficult or impossible. From theCambridge English Corpus This seemingly arcane and complex topic engaged the attention of the jurists: exactly how much nursing and which relatives were issues repeatedlychewedover in the legal literature. From theCambridge English Corpus Shecheweda piece of gum. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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