Noun

• S: (n) chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad (a wad of something chewable as tobacco)

Verb

• S: (v) chaw (chew without swallowing) "chaw tobacco"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) chew, masticate, manducate, jaw (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"
• S: (v) grate, grind (make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together) "grate one's teeth in anger"
• S: (v) break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise (break or cause to break into pieces) "The plate fragmented"
• S: (v) break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart (become separated into pieces or fragments) "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
• S: (v) change integrity (change in physical make-up)
• S: (v) change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature) "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame