"chew over" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: chews over [present, singular, third-person], chewing over [participle, present], chewed over [participle, past], chewed over [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} chew over (third-person singular simple present chews over, present participle chewing over, simple past and past participle chewed over)
  1. To think deeply about; to ponder or mull over. Categories (topical): Thinking Translations (to think deeply about): pohtia (Finnish), pohdiskella (Finnish), miettiä (Finnish), mietiskellä (Finnish), kelata [informal] (Finnish), ruminar [figuratively] (Portuguese)

Inflected forms

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