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Gnaw (n&asuml_;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gnawed (n&asuml_;d); p. pr. & vb. n. Gnawing.] [OE. gnawen, AS. gnagan; akin to D. knagen, OHG. gnagan, nagan, G. nagen, Icel. & Sw. gnaga, Dan. gnave, nage. Cf. Nag to tease.] 1. To bite, as something hard or tough, which is not readily separated or crushed; to bite off little by little, with effort; to wear or eat away by scraping or continuous biting with the teeth; to nibble at.
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His bones clean picked; his very bones they gnaw. Dryden.
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2. To bite in agony or rage.
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They gnawed their tongues for pain. Rev. xvi. 10.
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3. To corrode; to fret away; to waste.
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4. To trouble in a constant manner; to plague; to worry; to vex; -- usually used with at; as, his mounting debts gnawed at him.
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Gnaw, v. i. To use the teeth in biting; to bite with repeated effort, as in eating or removing with the teeth something hard, unwieldy, or unmanageable.
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I might well, like the spaniel, gnaw upon the chain that ties me. Sir P. Sidney.
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