Gnawing

  • 51Rodentia — The rodents; the largest order of placental mammals (class Eutheria), all possessing one pair of chisel like upper incisors for gnawing and flat crowned premolars and molars for grinding; it includes the mice, rats, guinea pig s, squirrels,… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 52List of Pokémon (1–51) — Contents 1 Bulbasaur 2 Ivysaur 3 Venusaur 4 Charmander …

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  • 53Mammal tooth — Contents 1 Mammals 1.1 Rabbit 1.2 Rodent 1.3 Horse 1.4 Humans …

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  • 54doubt — I n. 1) to raise (a) doubt (her proposal raised serious doubts in my mind) 2) to cast doubt on 3) to feel doubt; to entertain, harbor doubts about 4) to express, voice (a) doubt 5) to dispel, resolve a doubt 6) a deep, serious, strong; gnawing;… …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 55pain — I n. sensation of suffering 1) to cause pain 2) to inflict pain on 3) to bear, endure, stand, take pain (she cannot stand any pain) 4) to feel, experience, suffer pain (she experienced constant pain) 5) to allay, alleviate, dull, ease, kill,… …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 56gnaw — O.E. gnagan (pt. *gnog, pp. gnagan) to gnaw, a common Germanic word (Cf. O.S. gnagan, O.N., Swed. gnaga, M.Du., Du. knagen, O.H.G. gnagan, Ger. nagen to gnaw ), probably imitative of gnawing. Related: Gnawed; gnawing …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 57gnaw — verb (intransitive always + adv/prep, transitive) to keep biting something hard (+ away/at/on): Val gnawed at her fingernails. | gnaw sth: a dog gnawing a bone | gnaw a hole in sth: A rat had gnawed a hole in the box. gnaw at sb phrasal verb (T)… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 58bite — bite, gnaw, champ, gnash are comparable when they mean to attack with or as if with the teeth. Bite fundamentally implies a getting of the teeth, especially the front teeth, into something so as to grip, pierce, or tear off {bite an apple deeply} …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 59eat — [[t]it[/t]] v. ate [[t]eɪt[/t]] esp. brit. [[t]ɛt[/t]] eat•en [[t]ˈit n[/t]] eat•ing, 1) phl to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food) 2) to consume gradually; wear away; corrode 3) cvb to use up, esp. wastefully …

    From formal English to slang

  • 60fret — I [[t]frɛt[/t]] v. fret•ted, fret•ting, n. 1) to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like 2) to cause corrosion; gnaw into something: acids that fret at the strongest metals[/ex] 3) to make a way by gnawing, corrosion, wearing… …

    From formal English to slang