(US, slang, transitive) To defeat utterly.
My dog always chews up my daughter's teddy bears.
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(transitive) To chew so as to make something pulpy or tangled.
She had to chew up the food for him because his teeth are too small.
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(idiomatic, transitive) To ruin (especially land), by digging.
The tape got chewed up in the cassette player.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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