gnaw
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 4
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Definition of gnaw
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(ambitransitive)To bite something persistently, especially something tough.
“The dog gnawed the bone until it broke in two.”
“Ten thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon”
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verb
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(ambitransitive)To bite something persistently, especially something tough.
“The dog gnawed the bone until it broke in two.”
“Ten thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon”
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(intransitive)To produce excessive anxiety or worry.
“Her comment gnawed at me all day and I couldn't think about anything else.”
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To corrode; to fret away; to waste.
“VVots thou vvho's returnd, / The unthrift Bonvile, ragged as a ſcarre-crovv / The VVarres have gnavv'd his garments to the skinne: […]”
noun
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The act of gnawing.
“have a gnaw of a bone”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English gnawen, gnaȝen, from Old English gnagan, from Proto-West Germanic *gnagan, from Proto-Germanic *gnaganą (“to gnaw”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *gʰnēgʰ- (“to gnaw, scratch”). Cognate with Dutch knagen, German nagen, Danish gnave (“to gnaw”), Norwegian Bokmål gnage, Norwegian Nynorsk gnaga, Swedish gnaga.
Anagrams of gnaw
5 plays · some not in Scrabble
Words you can make from gnaw
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