"chew on" meaning in English

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      "form": "chews on",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "chewing on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chewed on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chewed on",
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        "past"
      ]
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chew, on."
      ],
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          "on",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 September 22, Clive Thompson, “QAnon Is Like a Game—a Most Dangerous Game”, in Wired, →ISSN",
          "text": "Once you chew on it that way, you start thinking, jeez, maybe QAnon was almost inevitable.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To consider, to ponder."
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        [
          "ponder",
          "ponder"
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        "(transitive, idiomatic) To consider, to ponder."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "chew on"
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    {
      "form": "chews on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "chewing on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chewed on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chewed on",
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  "pos": "verb",
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chew, on."
      ],
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          "text": "Once you chew on it that way, you start thinking, jeez, maybe QAnon was almost inevitable.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To consider, to ponder."
      ],
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          "ponder"
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        "(transitive, idiomatic) To consider, to ponder."
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
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