Usually means: Persistently chewing or biting something.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word Gnawing:

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  1. gnawing: Merriam-Webster
  2. gnawing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gnawing: Collins English Dictionary
  4. gnawing: Vocabulary.com
  5. Gnawing, gnawing: Wordnik
  6. gnawing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. gnawing: Wiktionary
  8. gnawing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. gnawing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. gnawing: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Gnawing, gnawing: Dictionary.com
  12. gnawing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Gnawing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Gnawing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. Gnawing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. gnawing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. gnawing: FreeDictionary.org
  18. gnawing: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. gnawing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. gnawing: Idioms

(Note: See gnaw as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gnawing)

▸ adjective:  (of pain or hunger) severe or intense
▸ noun:  The process by which something is gnawed.
▸ noun:  A sensation of being gnawed.

Similar:
erode, wear away, eat at, gnaw at, ravenous, ahungered, munched out, starving, severe, searing, more...

Opposite:
nourishing, enriching, satisfying

Types:
nibbling, chewing, munching, gorging, devouring, masticating, more...

Phrases:
gnawing at, gnawing animal, gnawing mammal, more...

Adjectives:
constant, rodent, continual, dull, compulsive, persistent, incessant, more, secret, cold, ceaseless

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Similar:
erode, wear away, eat at, gnaw at, ravenous, ahungered, munched out, starving, severe, searing, more...

Opposite:
nourishing, enriching, satisfying

Types:
nibbling, chewing, munching, gorging, devouring, masticating, more...

Phrases:
gnawing at, gnawing animal, gnawing mammal, more...

Adjectives:
constant, rodent, continual, dull, compulsive, persistent, incessant, more, secret, cold, ceaseless

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     taupe,     sepia,     umber, more...



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