gnaw in English
watching a dog gnaw at a big bone
Use "gnaw" in a sentence
1. They gnaw at the parched ground
2. Dogs like to gnaw on a bone.
3. Our dog likes to gnaw a bone.
4. Synonyms for Corrode are gnaw, rust and tarnish.
5. Woodlice attack living plants and gnaw at the stems.
6. A rat can gnaw a hole through wood.
7. Since rodere means "gnaw" rodent literally means "gnawer."
8. A rat's teeth are strong enough to gnaw through lead pipes.
9. It gnawed at him as he wanted to gnaw at food.
10. Gnaw: This ghoul ability is now able to be set on autocast.
11. And there are those who gnaw away at our national self - respect.
12. The cat began to gnaw at the skin of the dead snake.
13. The newest bones, the phalanges and the skull bear only gnaw marks of Jason Harkness.
14. Late Middle English from Latin Corrodere, from cor- (expressing intensive force) + rodere ‘gnaw’.
15. The background was almost white, with a few twirls of shrubbery gnaw-ing at the ground.
16. Corrode comes from Latin Corrodere ("to gnaw to pieces"), a combination of the suffix "cor-" (used here as an intensifier with the meaning of "completely") and the verb "rodere" ("to gnaw")
17. 18 synonyms for Corrode: eat away, waste, consume, corrupt, deteriorate, erode, rust, gnaw, oxidize
18. Maybe you choose to seethe silently about something, letting it gnaw away at you.
19. Porcupines live there now, the ones who gnaw scars on to the maple trees.
20. If hungry he'd gnaw your ankle just to let you know to fill his bowl.
21. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine.
22. It uses them to gnaw at the sides and bottom of its channel, gradually loosening more earth.
23. Something will have changed, become utterly different in a way that will gnaw at you, while it simultaneously intrigues you.
24. They do not, however, collect bone, and they mostly gnaw larger pieces of bone rather than small mammal bone.
25. Then if you find it is starting to gnaw something which it shouldn't you can direct its attention elsewhere.
26. Corrode (v.) late 14c., "to eat away, diminish or disintegrate (something) by gradually separating small bits of it," from Old French Corroder (14c.) and directly from Latin Corrodere "to gnaw to bits, wear away," from assimilated form of com-, here probably an intensive prefix (see com-), + rodere "to gnaw" (possibly from an extended form of PIE root *red-"to scrape, scratch, gnaw").
27. Chew definition is - to crush, grind, or gnaw (something, such as food) with or as if with the teeth : masticate
28. A monster eating a child does not just gnaw its head, but holds its wrists to stop it wriggling.
29. Rosa canina growing in the hedge and gnaw this forest cluster of shrubs, flowering from early spring to late fall has been opened.
30. A hellhound never any more than gnaw at Negroes, 1 Waking moment of every life is waiting for your help, Obama!
31. Corrode verb eat away, waste, consume, corrupt, deteriorate, erode, rust, gnaw, oxidize Engineers found that the structure had been Corroded by moisture
32. Holes were in the middle of the endocarp: Agoutis hold the endocarps horizontally and gnaw at them with the lower jaw
33. (when: intr, often foll by on, at, etc) to bite (something) nervously or impatiently; gnaw 3. Champ at the bit chafe at the bit …
34. Even low-sugar rusks can contain up to 15 percent sugar so give crusts of toast or a scrubbed carrot to gnaw on instead.
35. He'll grapple and gnaw at creatures just long enough to give you some time to retreat and wing some firebombs or send some mongrels in.
36. Squirrels gnaw the cones from the upper branches so they fall to the ground, and then race down to bury them in piles, or middens.
37. Despite the fact that Kassim is closer to the American Dream than most people will ever be, his wartime experiences in Africa still gnaw at his conscience.
38. Fiat money has worked well since Richard Nixon ended the dollar's peg to gold 40 years ago this week, but this latest recession must gnaw at believers.
39. Medieval Bestiary: Anthropophagi features a cannibalistic race of fiends with a voracious hunger for flesh and the means necessary to enslave the living or undead to later gnaw on their bones
40. Stemming from a Latin word that means "to gnaw away," Corrode is a verb that usually describes destroying a metal by oxidation or by some other kind of chemical action.
41. ‘The ant stopped to examine the gorse seeds, it quickly found the bright orange Caruncle and immediately began to bite and gnaw it.’ Origin Late 16th century obsolete French, from Latin caruncula, from caro, carn- ‘flesh’.
42. “He is the canker-worm to gnaw his own vitals; and the vulture to prey upon his own body; and he is, as to his own prospects and prosperity in life, a [destroyer] of his own pleasure.
43. Corrosive is the hazard characteristic of a chemical subtances, it is the one that will destroy and damage other substances which are in contact with them. These substances seem to “gnaw” their way through flesh or other material
44. Especially the Americans, grossly and Crapulously ignorant as they are of the rudiments of human language, seize like mongrel curs upon the putrid bones of their decaying monkey-jabber, and gnaw and tear them with fierce growls and howls.
45. "A wording poet": Othello among the mountebanks For Biggs, Clysters were something "to be abhorred as a cruel and beastly remedy." Every clyster, he says, is "naturally an enemy to the Intestines." "Turds," on the other hand, are the "naturall and domestick content of the gutts" which do not "prick or gnaw