gnawed
past simple and past participle ofgnaw
gnaw
verb[I+ prep,T]
uk/nɔː/us/nɑː/gnawverb[I + prep, T](BITE)
tobiteorchewsomethingrepeatedly, usually making aholein it orgraduallydestroyingit:
Babies like to gnaw hardobjectswhen they'reteething.
Adoglayunder thetable, gnawingonabone.
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.
Biting, chewing & swallowing
- bit
- bite
- biter
- champ
- chew
- chomp
- crunch
- dunk
- gnaw
- lick
- masticate
- mastication
- munch
- nibble
- non-biting
- peck
- peck atsomething
- rumination
- suck
- unbitten
gnawverb[I + prep, T](FEEL WORRIED)
to make youfeelworriedoruncomfortable:
I've been gnawedbyguiltabout notreplyingto herletteryet.
Thefeelingthat I'veforgottensomething has been gnawingatme allday.
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
- nose
- sensitivity
- shake
- shakesomeoneup
- shake/rocksomethingtoitsfoundationsidiom
- shattering
- shocker
- sorrow
- tear
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Causing anxiety and worry
Phrasal verb
gnaw away atsomething
Examplesofgnawed
gnawed
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The majority of fruits that aregnawedopen by agoutis are 1-2 y old.
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To determine whether the effort required to access the endocarp content differs between infested and sound endocarps, we measured the size of holesgnawedto extract the endocarp content.
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The great mass of disagreement cannot be removed by a single effort; it can be eaten into andgnawedaway only by patience and perseverance.
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To achieve that perfection we should need flex which could not be bitten through by a dog orgnawedat by a cat.
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I am sure all of us havegnawedsuch bones.
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He was attached to a rock andgnawedat by a vulture for 30,000 years.
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They havegnawedaway the concessions given to pensioners.
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One can see marks on the furniture where the rats havegnawed.
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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 timbergnawedaway by woodworm and covered with fungus.
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Fax machines, e-mail, electronic payments and direct debits have all provided competition that hasgnawedaway at some of the basic business of mail and parcel delivery.
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What causes young men or women to throw away their lives by taking drugs so that their minds and bodies aregnawedby 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 beengnawedby rats and pecked by gulls.
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The tension was unbearable; contemporary accounts famously report that one spectator dropped dead and anothergnawedthrough the handle of his umbrella.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Since that time the surfgnawedsteadily toward the base of the tower until 1935, when the site was finally reached by the surf.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The observation ofgnawedseedlings can assume leaf consumption by herbivores.
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- protest song
- protest-song
- protest too much
- protest-too-much
- protest vote
- protest vote
- prothallus
- prothorax
- prothrombin
- protist
- protista
- protium
- proto-
- protocol
- protocone
- protoconid
- protogynous
- Proto-Indo-European
- proto-indo-european
- protolith
- proton
- protonation
- proton gradient
- proton therapy