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Another word for gnaw

Verb

  1. To seize, as food, with the teeth

    2. See also:

    ingestion

    attack

  2. To consume gradually, as by chemical reaction or friction

    3. See also:

    attack

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Another word for gnaw

Verb
    2. See also:

    chew

    bite

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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.

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