Found 3 items, similar to Gnaw.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: gnaw
kerumit, mengerumit, menggerit, menggerogoti
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: gnaw
gnaw
v 1: bite or chew on with the teeth;
“gnaw an old cracker”;
“chewed on a cookie”
2: become ground down or deteriorate;
“Her confidence eroded”
[syn:
erode,
gnaw at,
eat at,
wear away]
[also:
gnawn]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Gnaw
Gnaw
\Gnaw\, v. i.
To use the teeth in biting; to bite with repeated effort, as
in eating or removing with the teeth something hard,
unwieldy, or unmanageable.
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I might well, like the spaniel, gnaw upon the chain
that ties me. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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Gnaw
\Gnaw\ (n[add]), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Gnawed (n[add]d); p.
pr. & vb. n.
Gnawing.] [OE. gnawen, AS. gnagan; akin to D.
knagen, OHG. gnagan, nagan, G. nagen, Icel. & Sw. gnaga, Dan.
gnave, nage. Cf.
Nag to tease.]
1. To bite, as something hard or tough, which is not readily
separated or crushed; to bite off little by little, with
effort; to wear or eat away by scraping or continuous
biting with the teeth; to nibble at.
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His bones clean picked; his very bones they gnaw.
--Dryden.
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2. To bite in agony or rage.
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They gnawed their tongues for pain. --Rev. xvi.
10.
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3. To corrode; to fret away; to waste.
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4. To trouble in a constant manner; to plague; to worry; to
vex; -- usually used with at; as, his mounting debts
gnawed at him.
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