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 observation of gnawed seedlings can assume leaf consumption by herbivores.
Since that time the surf gnawed steadily toward the base of the tower until 1935, when the site was finally reached by the surf.
The tension was unbearable; contemporary accounts famously report that one spectator dropped dead and another gnawed through the handle of his umbrella.
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?
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.
One can see marks on the furniture where the rats have gnawed.
