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单词 gnaw
释义
gnaw
verb[I+ prep,T]
uk
/nɔː/us
/nɑː/

gnawverb[I + prep, T](BITE)

tobiteorchewsomethingrepeatedly, usually making aholein it orgraduallydestroyingit:
咬，啮，啃（通常指啃出孔洞或逐渐啃坏）
Babies like to gnaw hardobjectswhen they'reteething.婴儿在长牙时喜欢啃咬硬物。
Adoglayunder thetable, gnawingonabone.一条狗趴在桌下啃骨头。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
to chew food
  • chewMake sure you chew your food thoroughly.
  • biteShe bit into the apple.
  • nibbleShe nibbled on peanuts while waiting for her dinner to cook.
  • munchHe munched popcorn throughout the whole film.
  • crunchShe was crunching on an apple.
  • chompHe was chomping a chocolate bar.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Biting, chewing & swallowing
  • bit
  • bite
  • biter
  • champ
  • chew
  • chomp
  • crunch
  • dunk
  • lick
  • masticate
  • mastication
  • munch
  • nibble
  • non-biting
  • peck
  • peck atsomething
  • rumination
  • suck
  • unbitten

gnawverb[I + prep, T](FEEL WORRIED)

to make youfeelworriedoruncomfortable:
使烦恼
I've been gnawedbyguiltabout notreplyingto herletteryet.我到现在还没有回她的信，心里一直感到很内疚。
Thefeelingthat I'veforgottensomething has been gnawingatme allday.我一整天都坐立不安，老感觉忘了什么事情。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Making people sad, shocked and upset
  • aback
  • amiss
  • appal
  • be laughing on the other side ofyourfaceidiom
  • bite
  • haunt
  • heartbreaker
  • heartbreakingly
  • hit/touch a (raw) nerveidiom
  • horrify
  • mess
  • nerve
  • sensitivity
  • shakesomeoneout ofsomething
  • shakesomeoneup
  • shake/rocksomethingtoitsfoundationsidiom
  • shattering
  • shocker
  • tear
  • toxic
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Causing anxiety and worry

Phrasal verb

gnaw away atsomething
(Definition ofgnawfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

gnaw| American Dictionary

gnaw
verb
us
/nɔ/

gnawverb(BITE)

[I/T]
tobiteorchewsomethingrepeatedly:
[I]Thecatbeganto gnaw at thetowelbeneath him.

gnawverb(FEEL ANXIOUS)

[Ialways+ adv/prep]
tocausesomeone tofeelcontinualanxietyorpain

gnawing

adjectiveus
/ˈnɔ·ɪŋ/
He has gnawingdoubtsabout his loyalties.
(Definition ofgnawfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Gnawing anxiety as to the future is one of the most soul-destroying things man can suffer from.
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The black economy also gnaws away at the public purse.
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What gnaws away at people's lives, however, is the incessant, everyday crime and what they consider to be crime.
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They have gnawed away the concessions given to pensioners.
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One can see marks on the furniture where the rats have gnawed.
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Nothing gnaws away at a business man's sense of well-being than cashflow problems.
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The burden becomes too heavy for them, and too many old people are left to loneliness which creeps on them and gnaws at the little strength which they have left.
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Their case is founded on false assumptions and their arguments are riddled with muddle and confusion—rather like a lump of old timber gnawed away by woodworm and covered with fungus.
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Fax machines, e-mail, electronic payments and direct debits have all provided competition that has gnawed away at some of the basic business of mail and parcel delivery.
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Jury nobbling gnaws at the marrow of justice.
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Inequality gnaws at the moral fabric of society.
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What causes young men or women to throw away their lives by taking drugs so that their minds and bodies are gnawed by these dreadful substances?
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Among those fish were kelts and there were snigger marks on many of them, and some even had marks of having been gnawed by rats and pecked by gulls.
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They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continually and must be keep short by gnawing.
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They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continually and must be kept short by gnawing.
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