Chew and Eat

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Chew verb - To crush or grind with the teeth.

Usage example: please chew your food thoroughly so you don't choke

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Eat is a synonym for chew. In some cases you can use "Eat" instead a verb "Chew".

Nearby Words: chewed, chewing, chewy

Eat verb - To take in as food.

Usage example: having gone all day without food, we greedily ate the hamburgers

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Chew is a synonym for eat in consume topic. You can use "Chew" instead a verb "Eat", if it concerns topics such as swallow, consume food.

Nearby Words: eating, eatable, eaten, eater

flesh	chew flesh	eat flesh
time	chew time	eat time
way	chew way	eat way
face	chew face	eat face
Other words: food, blood, head, amounts.

This, combined with the fact that most soldiers couldn't even chew it (some had to shave off bits with a knife and eat the shavings), meant that they would rather starve than eat the damn thing.

Source: Masochist's Meal
When Stimpy is forcibly encouraged by the house's husband to eat rather than release the mouse aka Ren, Stimpy tries to hold him in his mouth, but again is encouraged by the husband to chew it so he can eat it faster.

Source: Just Eat Him
It comes from goats that chew on the cans in order to eat the paper and glue of the labels.

Source: Extreme Omni Goat

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