chew on

Thesaurus

chew

verb

To bite and grind with the teeth:

champ, chomp, chump, crump, crunch, masticate, munch.

Regional: chaw.

phrasal verb
chew on or over

To think or think about carefully and at length:

cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, entertain, excogitate, meditate, mull, muse, ponder, reflect, revolve, ruminate, study, think, think out, think over, think through, turn over, weigh.

Idioms: cudgel one's brains, put on one's thinking cap, rack one's brain.

phrasal verb
chew out

Slang. To criticize for a fault or an offense:

admonish, call down, castigate, chastise, chide, dress down, rap, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, tax, upbraid.

Informal: bawl out, lambaste.

Idioms: bring to task, call on the carpet, haul over the coals, let someone have it.

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Translations

w>chew on

vi +prep obj

(lit) → (herum)kauen auf (+dat)

(also chew over: inf) facts, problem → sich (dat) → durch den Kopf gehen lassen

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