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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
Food, energy, housing and education are core voting issues, especially when you experience them as reducing your choices and chewing up your family budget.
That journey first takes them through Mexico, then through the border, and eventually to a cold and uncaring Los Angeles that chews up their dreams, American and otherwise.
She was chewed up during her time in Hollywood at the apex of its predatory tabloid era.
Other coprolites contained bones chewed up by predators that, like today's hyenas, crushed bones to obtain salts and marrow.
Probiotics -- bacteria and yeast -- can withstand stomach acid and digesting enzymes, offering a potentially promising strategy for safely transporting protein-based drugs that otherwise would get chewed up.
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