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词汇 gnawed
释义 gnawed
past simple and past participle ofgnaw
gnaw
verb[ I+ prep, T ]
uk /nɔː/ us /nɑː/

gnawverb[I + prep, T] (BITE)


to bite or chew something repeatedly, usually making a hole in it or gradually destroying it: 咬,啮,啃(通常指啃出孔洞或逐渐啃坏)
Babies like to gnaw hard objects when they're teething.婴儿在长牙时喜欢啃咬硬物。
gnaw onA dog lay under the table, gnawing on a bone.一条狗趴在桌下啃骨头。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to chew food
chewMake sure you chew your food thoroughly.
biteShe bit into the apple.
nibbleShe nibbled on peanuts while waiting for her dinner to cook.
munchHe munched popcorn throughout the whole film.
crunchShe was crunching on an apple.
chompHe was chomping a chocolate bar.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Biting, chewing & swallowing
bit
bite
biter
champ
chew
chew on something
chomp
crunch
dunk
gnaw
lick
masticate
mastication
masticatory
munch
peck at something
rumination
suck
unbitten
unchewable

gnawverb[I + prep, T] (FEEL WORRIED)


to make you feel worried or uncomfortable: 使烦恼
be gnawed byI've been gnawed by guilt about not replying to her letter yet.我到现在还没有回她的信,心里一直感到很内疚。
gnaw atThe feeling that I've forgotten something has been gnawing at me all day.我一整天都坐立不安,老感觉忘了什么事情。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making people sad, shocked and upset
aback
amiss
appal
be laughing on the other side of your faceidiom
bite
bum
gnaw
haunt
heartbreaker
heartbreakingly
hit/touch a (raw) nerveidiom
nerve
self-lacerating
self-laceration
sensitivity
shake someone out of something
shake someone up
shake/rock something to its foundationsidiom
toxic
wipe

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Causing anxiety and worry

Phrasal verb


gnaw away at something

Examples of gnawed


gnawed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


The majority of fruits that are gnawed open by agoutis are 1-2 y old.
To determine whether the effort required to access the endocarp content differs between infested and sound endocarps, we measured the size of holes gnawed to extract the endocarp content.
The great mass of disagreement cannot be removed by a single effort; it can be eaten into and gnawed away only by patience and perseverance.
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To achieve that perfection we should need flex which could not be bitten through by a dog or gnawed at by a cat.
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I am sure all of us have gnawed such bones.
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He was attached to a rock and gnawed at by a vulture for 30,000 years.
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They have gnawed away the concessions given to pensioners.
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One can see marks on the furniture where the rats have gnawed.
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Their case is founded on false assumptions and their arguments are riddled with muddle and confusion—rather like a lump of old timber gnawed away by woodworm and covered with fungus.
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Fax machines, e-mail, electronic payments and direct debits have all provided competition that has gnawed away at some of the basic business of mail and parcel delivery.
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What causes young men or women to throw away their lives by taking drugs so that their minds and bodies are gnawed by these dreadful substances?
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Among those fish were kelts and there were snigger marks on many of them, and some even had marks of having been gnawed by rats and pecked by gulls.
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The tension was unbearable; contemporary accounts famously report that one spectator dropped dead and another gnawed through the handle of his umbrella.
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Since that time the surf gnawed steadily toward the base of the tower until 1935, when the site was finally reached by the surf.
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The observation of gnawed seedlings can assume leaf consumption by herbivores.
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