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 Eagles’ standout bolstered his case, chewing up the Ravens’ stingy run defense by the chunk.
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Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 2 Dec. 2024
Morris matches his real-life counterpart’s easy swagger, while national treasure J.K. Simmons chews up scenery as Milton Berle.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2024
Other workers have attacked these problems by giving a robot a set of templates for common actions and chewing up sentences one word at a time.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2014
Another was chewed up, or trampled, or both, by a cow.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
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Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 2 Dec. 2024
Morris matches his real-life counterpart’s easy swagger, while national treasure J.K. Simmons chews up scenery as Milton Berle.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2024
Other workers have attacked these problems by giving a robot a set of templates for common actions and chewing up sentences one word at a time.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2014
Another was chewed up, or trampled, or both, by a cow.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
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“Chew up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chew%20up. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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