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    To gnaw is to keep biting the same hard thing, not to take one big bite and finish. A dog gnaws a bone. A mouse gnaws through a bag of rice. A child may gnaw a . The mouth works at it slowly, again and again. People also say a feeling gnaws at you — hunger, guilt, or a worry that will not leave — as if a small animal were biting you from the inside. That picture is very common and does not sound fancy. The verb is ordinary English, fine in speech and in writing.

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組成It does not split. From Old English gnagan, “to gnaw”. Dutch knagen, German nagen, and Danish/Norwegian/Swedish gnave, gnage, gnaga are the same family of verbs.

同家族的字

  • gnawinggnaw + -ing; also the adjective for a worry or pain that will not stop
  • gnatan old shared root about biting

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

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gnawverb/nɔː/

  • 1

    To bite something persistently, especially something tough.

    • The dog gnawed the bone until it broke in two.
    • Ten thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon
  • 2

    To produce excessive anxiety or worry.

    • Her comment gnawed at me all day and I couldn't think about anything else.
  • 3

    To corrode; to fret away; to waste.

    • VVots thou vvho's returnd, / The unthrift Bonvile, ragged as a ſcarre-crovv / The VVarres have gnavv'd his garments to the skinne: […]

gnawnoun/nɔː/

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    The act of gnawing.

    • give something a gnaw
    • have a gnaw of a bone

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。