Usually means: Chew persistently with teeth, bite.
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  1. gnaw: Merriam-Webster
  2. gnaw: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gnaw: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gnaw: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gnaw: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gnaw, gnaw: Wordnik
  7. gnaw: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gnaw: Wiktionary
  9. gnaw: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gnaw: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gnaw: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gnaw, gnaw: Dictionary.com
  13. gnaw: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gnaw: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gnaw: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gnaw: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gnaw: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gnaw: Rhymezone
  19. gnaw: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gnaw: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. gnaw: FreeDictionary.org
  22. gnaw: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gnaw: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. gnaw: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. gnaw: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. gnaw: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. GNAW: Acronym Finder
  2. gnaw: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gnaw: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Gnaw: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gnaw)

▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To bite something persistently, especially something tough.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To produce excessive anxiety or worry.
▸ verb:  To corrode; to fret away; to waste.
▸ noun:  the act of gnawing

Similar:
erode, wear away, eat at, gnaw at, nibble, snack, snaffle up, take a bite out of, snap, snarf, more...

Opposite:
build, construct, create, repair, fix

Types:
nibble, chomp, chew, munch, crunch, gnash, bite, more...

Phrases:
gnaw at, Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival, Gnaw Their Tongues, opposite of gnaw, gnaw away at, more...

Adjectives:
dull, cold, hungry, good, less, steady, hopeless

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Similar:
erode, wear away, eat at, gnaw at, nibble, snack, snaffle up, take a bite out of, snap, snarf, more...

Opposite:
build, construct, create, repair, fix

Types:
nibble, chomp, chew, munch, crunch, gnash, bite, more...

Phrases:
gnaw at, Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival, Gnaw Their Tongues, opposite of gnaw, gnaw away at, gnaw off, more...

Adjectives:
dull, cold, hungry, good, less, steady, hopeless

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     beige,     taupe,     ochre, more...



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