chew something up

The farther south they went, the more chewed up the ground became.

"I was given to understand that power politics had chewed you up."

They're chewing us up and you won't be able to get a boat in.

Heavy fire chewed up the floor on both sides of him.

But it could be chewed up in the mouth, though.

He could chew me up in the space of a few hours.

I wish you'd thought of that before you chewed me up.

"My sister has finally found a man she cannot control at all, and it's chewing her up!"

And it was chewing up my arm in the process, too.

He was lucky not to get chewed up one side and down the other.