Another word for gnaw | Synonyms for gnaw

Another word for gnaw

gnaw Synonyms

gnaw

v.

crunch, champ, masticate; see bite 1, chew.

Search Thesaurus

WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Link/Cite

Link to this page

Cite this page

MLA Style

"Gnaw." YourDictionary. LoveToKnow. thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/Gnaw.

APA Style

Gnaw. (n.d.). In YourDictionary. Retrieved from https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/Gnaw

Another word for gnaw

verb

To seize, as food, with the teeth:
bite, champ, chomp, gnash. See attack, ingestion
To consume gradually, as by chemical reaction or friction:
bite, corrode, eat, erode, wear, wear away. See attack

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Link/Cite

Link to this page

Cite this page

MLA Style

"Gnaw." YourDictionary. LoveToKnow. thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/Gnaw.

APA Style

Gnaw. (n.d.). In YourDictionary. Retrieved from https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/Gnaw

SentencesSentence examples

Sentence Examples

The muskrat will gnaw his third leg off to be free.
Several of the elaterid larvae, however, gnaw roots and are highly destructive to farm crops.
Beavers also gnaw the bark of birch, poplar and willow trees; but during the summer a more varied herbage, with the addition of berries, is consumed.
When confined, they will gnaw through the hardest wood in order to make their escape.
Daniel's baby brother will gnaw on anything he can fit in his mouth.

Also Mentioned In

WORDS NEAR gnaw IN THE THESAURUS