To gnaw is to bite or chew. Your favorite food might be corn on the cob, because you love to gnaw along each row of kernels.
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.
Verb
become ground down or deteriorate; "Her confidence eroded"
Verb
bite or chew on with the teeth; "gnaw an old cracker"; "chewed on a cookie"
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To bite in agony or rage.
v. t.
To corrode; to fret away; to waste.
v. i.
To use the teeth in biting; to bite with repeated effort,
as in eating or removing with the teethsomething hard, unwiedly, or
unmanageable.
Gnaw
His bones clean picked; his very bones they gnaw.2.
They gnawed their tongues for pain.3.
Gnaw
I might well, like the spaniel, gnaw upon the chain that ties me.
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.
To use the teeth in biting; to bite with repeated effort, as in eating or removing with the teethsomething hard, unwiedly, or unmanageable.
Usage Examples
Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
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