gnaw
gnaw is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To bite in agony or rage. They gnawed their tongues for pain. Rev. xvi.
- 2.3. To corrode; to fret away; to waste.
- 3.To use the teeth in biting; to bite with repeated effort, as in eating or removing with the teethsomething hard, unwiedly, or unmanageable. I might well, like the spaniel, gnaw upon the chain that ties me. Sir P. Sidney.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abrasion
- affriction
- anointment
- arrosion
- attrite
- attrition
- confrication
- contrition
- curry
- detrition
- down
- edge
- elbow
- file
- fray
- frication
- friction
- glycerine
- graze
- grease
- grind
- lather
- limature
- lubricate
- lubrication
- lubricitate
- lubricous
- lubrification
- massage
- oil
- out
- polish
- powder
- rasp
- reduce
- rolling
- rosin
- roughness
- rub
- rubbing
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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