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Meaning of "gnawing" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GNAWING

gnawing  [ˈnɔːɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GNAWING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gnawing is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES GNAWING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of gnawing in the English dictionary

The definition of gnawing in the dictionary is persistent and distressing.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GNAWING


being
ˈbiːɪŋ
brewing
ˈbruːɪŋ
canoeing
kəˈnuːɪŋ
cawing
ˈkɔːɪŋ
doing
ˈduːɪŋ
drawing
ˈdrɔːɪŋ
ensuing
ɪnˈsjuːɪŋ
issuing
ˈɪʃuːɪŋ
jawing
ˈdʒɔːɪŋ
pursuing
pəˈsjuːɪŋ
queuing
ˈkjuːɪŋ
rescuing
ˈreskjuːɪŋ
seeing
ˈsiːɪŋ
sightseeing
ˈsaɪtˌsiːɪŋ
skiing
ˈskiːɪŋ
suing
ˈsuːɪŋ
unwithdrawing
ˌʌnwɪðˈdrɔːɪŋ
valuing
ˈvæljuːɪŋ
viewing
ˈvjuːɪŋ
wellbeing
ˈwɛlˈbiːɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GNAWING

gnashingly
gnat
gnat´s piss
gnatcatcher
gnathal
gnathic
gnathion
gnathite
gnathonic
gnathonical
gnathonically
gnathostomatous
gnathostome
gnatlike
gnatling
gnatty
gnaw
gnawable
gnawer
gnawingly

WORDS THAT END LIKE GNAWING

detail drawing
exploded drawing
following
growing
isometric drawing
lawing
life drawing
line drawing
mechanical drawing
on the wing
outline drawing
parawing
pen-and-ink drawing
scale drawing
sepia drawing
showing
technical drawing
thawing
wash drawing
working drawing

Synonyms and antonyms of gnawing in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «GNAWING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «gnawing» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of gnawing

Translation of «gnawing» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GNAWING

Find out the translation of gnawing to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of gnawing from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gnawing» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

roer
570 millions of speakers

English

gnawing
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

gnawing
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

القضم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ноющая
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

roer
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

gnawing
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

rongeur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gnawing
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

nagend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

かじる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

갉아
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gnawing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gặm nhấm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நச்சரித்துக்கொண்டிருக்கிறது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कुरकुरणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kemiren
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rodente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gryzienia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ниючий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

roadere
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ροκάνισμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

geknaag
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gnagande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gnager
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gnawing

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GNAWING»

The term «gnawing» is regularly used and occupies the 73.731 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GNAWING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gnawing

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7 QUOTES WITH «GNAWING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word gnawing.
1
William J. Clinton
It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.
2
Bernard DeVoto
The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.
3
Benito Mussolini
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
4
Camille Paglia
Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.
5
Robert South
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
6
Catherine Tate
I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.
7
Steven Weber
The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape!

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GNAWING»

Discover the use of gnawing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gnawing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The bone-gnawing system
Is not this robbery, and leading to bone gnawing? I should very much wish that you could be compelled, for one mouth, to take the place of one of these living — half-starved — corn-grinding machines, with the same food and accommodations .
Samuel Roberts, 1845
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Unabridged Dictionary of the Sensations "as If".
Gnawing in the lumbar region as if gnawed by dog. Hura (A) Gnawed Ulcer. — Whole neck of the womb is of a horny-like character, dark red, purplish and gnawed as if from mice all over the surface of ulcer. Curara (Hg) Gnawing Abdomen.
James William Ward, 1985
3
Back Pain: How to Relieve Low Back Pain and Sciatica
Gnawing pains are frequently but not necessarily mild. A characteristic of gnawing pains is that they seem to be progressive even when they are not. One cause of this kind of sensation is cancer, where there is literally an eating away or a ...
Loren Fishman, Loren M. Fishman, Carol Ardman, 1999
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Unabridged Dictionary of Sensations as If
Sensation as of gnawing in the abdomen. Kali Aceticum (JHC) Gnawing Appendix. — Drawing-gnawing in the region of appendix as though inflammation were beginning. X-Ray (HCA) Gnawing Arms. — Between the shoulders and on both ...
J. W. Ward, 2003
5
New Manual; Or, Symptomen-codex
5. Burning toothache, as if owing to looseness of the teeth, at times in one, at times in another tooth, generally at night or in the evening, or when leaning backwards in a chair, with ptyalism, Graph. GNAWING PAIN. 1. Gnawing pain in the tooth, ...
Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr, Charles Julius Hempel, 1853
6
Drug Discovery and Evaluation: Pharmacological Assays
E.2.4.7 Cork Gnawing Test in the Rat PURPOSE AND RATIONALE Cork gnawing behavior in the rat has been proposed as a screening method for buspirone-like anxiolytics by Pollard and Howard (1991). PROCEDURE Adult male Evans rats ...
Hans Vogel, 2008
7
Medicine
Gnawing. Epigastric. Pain,. Nausea,. and. Vomiting. CC/ID: 52-year-old man has sudden onset epigastric pain, nausea, and vomiting. HPI: A. P. was in his usual state of health until this afternoon, when he experienced the sudden onset of ...
Jonathan Z. Li, Holbrook E. Kohrt, Aaron B. Caughey, 2007
8
Islands of Inquiry: Colonisation, Seafaring and the ...
However, weathering, dog gnawing and bone density are not the only factors to consider at Kohika. Firstly, the amount of gnawing in any assemblage will be dictated by the size of the carnivore population. Given the number of dog bones and ...
Geoffrey Richard Clark, Sue O'Connor, Bryan Foss Leach, 2008
9
Forensic Taphonomy: The Postmortem Fate of Human Remains
Brain (1981) attributes gnawing on bones by rodents to their need to provide attrition to their continuously growing incisors to keep them at a "usable" length. Rodent tooth marks on bone surfaces have been variously described as channels or ...
William D. Haglund, Marcella H. Sorg, 1996
10
Gnawing Vultures from Within - Concepts of Addiction and the ...
Anika Meier. Bibliografische Information Der Deutschen Bibliothek: Die Deutsche Bibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über http://dnb.ddb.de/ abrufbar  ...
Anika Meier, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GNAWING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gnawing is used in the context of the following news items.
1
BBC sports' Mike Bushell gives Marion Bartoli an awkward hug at …
The real fist-gnawing came when studio host Charlie Stayt questioned Bushell about his touchy-feely approach. The flustered presenter ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
2
Loggers captured at work in Larry Fink's Opening the Sky
A whooooosh and slow silent rumble, then the gnawing ra-ta- tat-ta of the saw," he writes in the book. "Its whine, searing as it lacerates 350 years of slow-time ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
3
To my cousin who lost her battle with heroin
I am a constant, gnawing reminder of what "could have been" for you. In the beginning, I knew it hurt — literally hurt — your mother to be around ... «Asbury Park Press, Jul 15»
4
The Ashes 2015: Australia must recover quickly from confounding …
For Australia on Saturday evening, those gulls may as well have been vultures gnawing at their soul. A decade ago, Australia convincingly won ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
5
Republican Rep. Mike Regan Wants To Ban Drug Dealers From …
“Conservatives have this overbearing, gnawing, hate filled drive to see suffering,” wrote one commenter. “They want the world to be a Dickens ... «The Inquisitr, Jul 15»
6
Power Review: “Who You Are and Who You Want to Be”
Angela is gnawing at her fingers to get a piece of the action, and because she knows Tommy, she knows how to get to his girlfriends. The new ... «Paste Magazine, Jul 15»
7
Watch Boys Noize and Pilo's new video for 'Cerebral'
The video's gnawing presence is easily amped by the Boys Noize and Pilo cut, heavy on bass and speed. It comes from Boys Noize's recently ... «The 405, Jul 15»
8
Toothless Lucy is pure unadulterated sweetness
But like so many puppy mill dogs, who spend year after year gnawing on the wires of their tiny prisons out of sheer frustration and loneliness, ... «cleveland.com, Jul 15»
9
7 movie villains we'd love to hang out with
Okay, so he's kind of terrifying, what with the sloppy clown make-up and 'gnawing on one two many knives' look. But with a hop, skip and a ... «WOW24/7, Jul 15»
10
The Fox Hunting Phone-In
My usual dislike of animals has only been amplified recently by the scratching and gnawing of said squirrels in the whole downstairs ceilings of ... «LBC 97.3, Jul 15»

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