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To gnaw is to keep biting the same hard thing, not to take one big bite and finish. A dog gnaws a bone. A mouse gnaws through a bag of rice. A child may gnaw a . The mouth works at it slowly, again and again. People also say a feeling gnaws at you — hunger, guilt, or a worry that will not leave — as if a small animal were biting you from the inside. That picture is very common and does not sound fancy. The verb is ordinary English, fine in speech and in writing.
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組成It does not split. From Old English gnagan, “to gnaw”. Dutch knagen, German nagen, and Danish/Norwegian/Swedish gnave, gnage, gnaga are the same family of verbs.
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gnawverb/nɔː/
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To bite something persistently, especially something tough.
- The dog gnawed the bone until it broke in two.
- Ten thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon
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To produce excessive anxiety or worry.
- Her comment gnawed at me all day and I couldn't think about anything else.
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To corrode; to fret away; to waste.
- VVots thou vvho's returnd, / The unthrift Bonvile, ragged as a ſcarre-crovv / The VVarres have gnavv'd his garments to the skinne: […]
gnawnoun/nɔː/
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The act of gnawing.
- give something a gnaw
- have a gnaw of a bone
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