chew

/tʃuː/ verb [I, T]

Translation

EAT › to crush food between your teeth before you swallow it

çiğnemek

This meat is difficult to chew.848

BITE › to repeatedly bite something without swallowing it

tıka basa doldurup çiğnemek

to chew gum848

chew sth over phrasal verb

› to think carefully about something, or to discuss it

üzerinde iyice düşünmek, enine boyuna tartmak, kafa yormak

We've been chewing over the possibility of moving house.10971157

(Definition of chew verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

to do something without worrying about the risk or negative results

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