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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of champ.

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Examples

  • Dante places him in the lowest round of the ninth or last of the hellish circles, where he is eternally "champed" by Satan,

    Pages from a Journal with Other Papers Mark Rutherford 1872

  • And the circle of old men champed their gums, and nodded approvingly, and coughed.

    The Wit of Porportuk 2010

  • Nor did they notice his occasional exclamations and utterances of phrases which meant nothing to them, as, for instance, when he smacked his lips and champed his gums while muttering:

    Page 5 2010

  • Sometimes there were cows in the fields, and they champed impassively and swished their tails.

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • Sometimes there were cows in the fields, and they champed impassively and swished their tails.

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • Sometimes there were cows in the fields, and they champed impassively and swished their tails.

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • Decaying corn teeth champed loosely under deep black eye sockets, grinning, Mind your manners, my dear!

    Meeting the bony woman 2007

  • Decaying corn teeth champed loosely under deep black eye sockets, grinning, Mind your manners, my dear!

    Meeting the bony woman 2007

  • And then something clutched at me, something slimy and vile, and great mandibles champed in my face; but I stabbed upward, and the thing fell from me, leaving me dazed and sick, and smiting weakly.

    The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' 2007

  • His comrade was mounted upon a destriere of the true Norman breed, that had first champed grass on the green pastures of

    Burlesques 2006

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