chew on
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chew
verbphrasal 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.
chew out
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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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