chew up
phrasal verb
chewed up; chewing up; chews up
1
: to destroy (something) by chewing it
My new puppy chewed up my shoes.
2
informal
: to destroy or defeat (someone or something)
The truck chewed up the grass.
They chewed the competition up.
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The golden retriever didn't chew up anything during puppyhood and had no recurring accidents.
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Kelli Bender, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025
Besides a delay in getting your response, this is undoubtedly chewing up processing cycles on the server that is running the generative AI.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
In past dry years, Dice says, rabbits have chewed up irrigation lines at the research center in an effort to get some water.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025
Sten Lennart Jakobsen/East Zealand Museum About 66 million years ago, just before the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, a fish chewed up and spit out some sea creatures.
—James Doubek, NPR, 29 Jan. 2025
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Kelli Bender, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025
Besides a delay in getting your response, this is undoubtedly chewing up processing cycles on the server that is running the generative AI.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
In past dry years, Dice says, rabbits have chewed up irrigation lines at the research center in an effort to get some water.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025
Sten Lennart Jakobsen/East Zealand Museum About 66 million years ago, just before the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, a fish chewed up and spit out some sea creatures.
—James Doubek, NPR, 29 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for chew up
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“Chew up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chew%20up. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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