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censure severely or angrily
The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup
How To Use chew up In A Sentence
- Remember that a well-placed strafe will chew up an airplane on the ground.
- The phagocytes are cells that chew up invading organisms.
- Defence expenditures chew up 39 per cent of the budget.
- What he does is chew up a pale, new leaf.
- Those cute little programs that make party invitations for the kids can chew up 40 or 50 megs.
- Aerobic bacteria chew up the ammonia and turn it first into nitride and then to nitrate.
- The lucky recipient would then chew upon the remaining flesh of the fruit before it went completely and unappetisingly brown from contact with the air, like a dog gnawing a bone dropped from the master's table.
- Bacteria chew up carbohydrates in the wastewater, producing carbon dioxide.
- Does your puppy always chew up your shoes?
- The lucky recipient would then chew upon the remaining flesh of the fruit before it went completely and unappetisingly brown from contact with the air, like a dog gnawing a bone dropped from the master's table.