chew up
(transitive) To chew so as to make something pulpy or tangled.
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People on jet skis are a bloody menace. There is virtually no purpose to using a jet ski, aside from fulfilling a desire to be an inconsiderate prick on the water. I'd love to see jet skis, and ATVs that chew up the b…
One of the most obvious things is that LLMs use the same amount of compute & energy whether you tell it to pretend to be a cartoon character vs. "be the smartest people in the world". If it was actually "thinking" as…
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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.
“People on jet skis are a bloody menace. There is virtually no purpose to using a jet ski, aside from fulfilling a desire to be an inconsiderate prick on the water. I'd love to see jet skis, and ATVs that chew up the back country, banned from recreational use.”
The tape got chewed up in the cassette player.
“People on jet skis are a bloody menace. There is virtually no purpose to using a jet ski, aside from fulfilling a desire to be an inconsiderate prick on the water. I'd love to see jet skis, and ATVs that chew up the back country, banned from recreational use.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“One of the most obvious things is that LLMs use the same amount of compute & energy whether you tell it to pretend to be a cartoon character vs. "be the smartest people in the world". If it was actually "thinking" asking it to ponder hard questions would chew up more compute.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(US, slang, transitive) To defeat utterly.
My dog always chews up my daughter's teddy bears.
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