0 to bite or chew something repeatedly, usually making a hole in it or gradually destroying it:
1 to make you feel worried or uncomfortable:
2 to bite or chew something repeatedly:
3 to cause someone to feel continual anxiety or pain
They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continually and must be kept short by gnawing.
They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continually and must be keep short by gnawing.
Among those fish were kelts and there were snigger marks on many of them, and some even had marks of having been gnawed by rats and pecked by gulls.
What causes young men or women to throw away their lives by taking drugs so that their minds and bodies are gnawed by these dreadful substances?
Inequality gnaws at the moral fabric of society.
Jury nobbling gnaws at the marrow of justice.
Fax machines, e-mail, electronic payments and direct debits have all provided competition that has gnawed away at some of the basic business of mail and parcel delivery.
Their case is founded on false assumptions and their arguments are riddled with muddle and confusion—rather like a lump of old timber gnawed away by woodworm and covered with fungus.
