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chew up
verb
- to damage or destroy (something) by or as by chewing or grinding
- slang.usually passive to cause (a person) to be nervous or worried
he was all chewed up about the interview
Example Sentences
Now I'm not above assigning the occasional hack piece in a class to let my students chew up and spit out.
Typically produced by a writer not ready for a first novel, they are easy to chew up, digest, and forget about in the morning.
A new fuss over the public option would necessarily return health care to the front-burner and chew up a bunch of time.
They wanted me to go off in the woods somewhere 'n' chew up my soul all alone, 'n' I've fooled 'em,—we all have!
It will also chew up everything within reach and the traps must be well fastened.
A neighbor's goat had taken advantage of his absence to chew up a pillowcase and two aprons.
De 'bacca worms an' de grasshoppas is a-gwine to chew up all de terbacca befo' men gits a chawnce at it.
In the United States the men chew up and smoke one hundred millions of dollars' worth of tobacco every year.
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