0 past simple and past participle of gnaw
1 to bite or chew something repeatedly, usually making a hole in it or gradually destroying it:
2 to make you feel worried or uncomfortable:
The majority of fruits that are gnawed open by agoutis are 1-2 y old.
To determine whether the effort required to access the endocarp content differs between infested and sound endocarps, we measured the size of holes gnawed to extract the endocarp content.
The great mass of disagreement cannot be removed by a single effort; it can be eaten into and gnawed away only by patience and perseverance.
To achieve that perfection we should need flex which could not be bitten through by a dog or gnawed at by a cat.
I am sure all of us have gnawed such bones.
He was attached to a rock and gnawed at by a vulture for 30,000 years.
They have gnawed away the concessions given to pensioners.
One can see marks on the furniture where the rats have gnawed.
