chew something up

Examples of chewed

chewed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Huddling for warmth, they chewed lumps of pemmican and raw bacon; without fuel there was no water to drink.
In moderate dysphagia, they may need to modify the diet to softer food, which is more easily chewed or swallowed.
The leaves were chewed and the soluble contents extracted by the bats.
We should not be attempting to bite off a single piece of innovative information that cannot be chewed and carefully digested.
The eggs are then covered with chewed plant fibres.
The latter author indicated that the midrib and other veins were chewed only in the basal portion of the leaves.
Beetles remained at the base of the inflorescence and the female flowers bore signs of having had their stigmas chewed.
At this, the spectators sitting in the packed court-room gallery reportedly let out a collective sigh of relief and many chewed their lips, holding back tears of emotion.
Percentage predation was determined by a direct count of scale remains, white marks of the spiracular bands and scale covers with chewed edges or ragged holes in them.
Secondary caching may have been more common, however, as there was often no evidence of chewed endocarps in the area of primary cache sites when the seed was recovered.
She chewed up a green grape.
Almost all the visited inflorescences had damaged (chewed) stigmas; we believe that in the absence of sterile flowers in this species, the stigmas provide a nutritional reward for the pollinators.
However, preliminary analysis of some samples with a dissecting microscope revealed that the prey had been chewed so thoroughly that species identification was very difficult or impossible.
This seemingly arcane and complex topic engaged the attention of the jurists: exactly how much nursing and which relatives were issues repeatedly chewed over in the legal literature.
She chewed a piece of gum.
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