Definitions for gnaw

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Spelling: [naw]

IPA: /nɔ/

Gnaw is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in gnaw (agnw).

Definitions for 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 gnaw

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

Examples for gnaw

I attempted to gnaw through the wires, but they resisted my utmost efforts.

Come here, Harry; get in front of me and I'll gnaw your wrists free.

Sam watched her go to the house, and doubts began to gnaw at him.

They burrowed under the snow until they could gnaw them, and thus they released us.

Stanley Crouch on why there are so many predators “looking for some high-profile black female meat to give the gnaw.”

In the end, the ethical implications of using a drug to pull statements from otherwise unwilling people began to gnaw.

This they do by sending an animal into the body of the child to gnaw its vitals.

Her theory was good, only Buddy didn't care to gnaw his bone on an evening edition.

The dogs had devoured even the entrails of the seal, and began to gnaw their traces.

The dog was unable to gnaw through the leather at his own end of the stick.