chew sth up
— phrasal verb with chew uk/tʃuː/us/tʃuː/verb [ I or T ]
If a machine chews up something that you have put inside it, it damages or destroys it:
The cash machine chewed up my card!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Destroying and demolishing
- annihilate
- apocalypse
- be sacrificed on the altar of sth idiom
- blast
- blast/blow sb/sth to kingdom come idiom
- kill sth off
- kill the goose that lays the golden egg idiom
- knock
- knock sth down
- knock sth out
- sacrifice
- sink
- smash
- stave sth in
- take sb/sth out
- tear 1
- tear sth apart
- tear sth down
- teardown
- wipe
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