Definitions for gnawing

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IPA: /ˈnɔ ɪŋ/

Gnawing is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in gnawing (agginnw).

Definitions for gnawing

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that gnaws.
2. Usually, gnawings. persistent, dull pains; pangs:

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 gnawing

Middle English word dating back to 1300-50; See origin at gnaw, -ing¹

Examples for gnawing

Nothing but this and the cheep-cheep of a mouse that was gnawing the wood somewhere in the floor.

You have taken to gnawing on dried pasta, the only thing left in your larder after days of gorging.

Then came remembrance, and it was far worse than the fangs of pain that were gnawing him.

Some fearful secret must be gnawing at the big man's vitals.

They've been drifted away into one of the deepest holes there is, and the rats have been gnawing at 'em.

It put a name to that gnawing, indefinite feeling she had been too intent to own.

He was looking down, and gnawing at that tremulous upper lip.

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?

Before I got fired I was gnawing at the edges of my expressiveness or my brazenness.

Deep in his heart was a gnawing of envy—not for himself, but for his work.