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CHEW

4 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

CHEW is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

CHEWS-s 2 CHEWING-ing 5 CHEWED-ed 3
verb
  1. To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
    • Make sure to chew thoroughly, and don't talk with your mouth full!
    • The steak was tough to chew as it had been cooked too long.
  2. To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
    • He keeps his feed in steel drums to prevent the mice from chewing holes in the feed-sacks.
    • The harsh desert wind and sand had chewed the stump into ragged strips of wood.
  3. informaluncountableThe condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
  4. informalTo think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
    • The professor stood at the blackboard, chalk in hand, and chewed the question the student had asked.
  5. To chew tobacco.
    • To reduce cancer risk, it is best that you neither chew nor smoke.
    • He'd been chewing for many years by the time he first noticed some white plaques on his oral mucosa.
noun
  1. countableuncountableThe act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
    • I popped the gum into my mouth and gave it a chew.
  2. countableuncountableLevel of chewiness.
  3. countableuncountableA small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
    • Phillip purchased a bag of licorice chews at the drugstore.
  4. informaluncountableChewing tobacco.
    • The school had banned chew and smokes from the school grounds, even for adults.
  5. countableA plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
    • The ballplayers sat on the bench watching the rain, glumly working their chews.
    • The first time he chewed tobacco, he swallowed his chew and got extremely sick.
  6. informaluncountableThe condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.