chew

Noun

• biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow

• a wad of something chewable as tobacco

Verb

• chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
  • He jawed his bubble gum
    
  • Chew your food and don't swallow it!
    
  • The cows were masticating the grass
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  chewing , mastication , manduction , chaw , cud , quid , plug , wad , masticate , manducate , jaw