if something gets chewed up, it becomes torn apart and destroyed
to chew something for a long time, until it is very soft or in very small pieces and easy to swallow
He's like a disruptive puppy chewing up the furniture at school and getting himself into trouble.
My new trousers got chewed up in my bike chain.
They may seem horrible, but they do an important job in chewing up waste food and dead animals, and recycling them
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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