Definitions for gnawn

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Spelling: [nawn]

IPA: /nɔn/

Gnawn is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in gnawn (agnnw).

Definitions for gnawn

verb

1. a past participle of gnaw.

verb (used with object)

1. to bite or chew on, especially persistently.
2. to wear away or remove by persistent biting or nibbling.
3. to form or make by so doing:
4. to waste or wear away; corrode; erode.
5. to trouble or torment by constant annoyance, worry, etc.; vex; plague.

verb (used without object)

1. to bite or chew persistently:
2. to cause corrosion:
3. to cause an effect resembling corrosion:

Origin of gnawn

before 1000; Middle English gnawen, Old English gnagen; cognate with German nagen, Old Norse gnāga

Examples for gnawn

Nor could they find a bundle in a handkerchief, which they would have gnawn through speedily.

Neither shrink thou at the gnawn tables that await thee; the fates will find a way, and Apollo aid thy call.

On the east side a strange section of gray lava and ash is gnawn into caves.