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Word entry · 4 letters

gnaw

Best crossword clue

"Chew persistently"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /nɔː/Part of speech verbSorted agnwStarts with GEnds with W1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. become ground down or deteriorate

Word origin

From Middle English gnawen, gnaȝen, from Old English gnagan, from Proto-West Germanic *gnagan, from Proto-Germanic *gnaganą (“to gnaw”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *gʰnēgʰ- (“to gnaw, scratch”).

Used in a sentence

  • The dog gnawed the bone until it broke in two.
  • Ten thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon
  • Her comment gnawed at me all day and I couldn't think about anything else.

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