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[ naw-ing ] / ˈnɔ ɪŋ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR gnawing ON THESAURUS.COM
nounthe act of a person or thing that gnaws. Usually gnawings. persistent, dull pains; pangs: the gnawings of hunger. Origin of gnawingMiddle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at gnaw, -ing1 OTHER WORDS FROM gnawinggnaw·ing·ly, adverbWords nearby gnawinggnathostome, gnathostomiasis, -gnathous, gnatty, gnaw, gnawing, gnawn, GNC, gneiss, gneissoid, gnetophyte Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for gnawingYou have taken to gnawing on dried pasta, the only thing left in your larder after days of gorging. So You Are Enduring a Temporarily Paralyzing Winter Storm|Kelly Williams Brown|February 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST But the whole time they have a gnawing feeling in the back of their minds: Am I being a good parent by letting them do this? Steve James and Christopher Nowinski Talk the New Doc ‘Head Games’|Kevin Fallon|September 22, 2012|DAILY BEAST Before I got fired I was gnawing at the edges of my expressiveness or my brazenness. Rick Sanchez Licks His Wounds|Adam Hanft|January 9, 2011|DAILY BEAST But to-night it had an almost startling appropriateness, breaking in as if in direct response to her gnawing hunger of the heart. A Spirit in Prison|Robert Hichens
The old man looked very haggard, for his internal wolf was gnawing. Lady Maude's Mania|George Manville Fenn There was a gnawing dread in his mind that they might be lodged in a fissure of an unscalable cliff. His Unknown Wife|Louis Tracy But Can you allay a gnawing conscience, Or bind up bleeding reputation? Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama|Walter W. Greg A gnawing rat might have made something like the noise of the drill biting its way. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man|Marie Conway Oemler
Words related to gnawingpeaked, barbed, pointed, piercing, keen, acuminate, jagged, fine, edged, horned, honed, aciculate, acute, cuspate, cuspidate, knifelike, lancinating, acuate, acuminous, apical |