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gnawing
[naw-ing]
noun
the act of a person or thing that gnaws.
Usually gnawings. persistent, dull pains; pangs.
the gnawings of hunger.
Other 51Թ Forms
- gnawingly adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
Rogers, he would explain, was always gnawing on a wad of gum.
Another part of you frantically tries to embalm the memories, fearing the natural deterioration and gnawing terror of time.
A truly insidious horror film might have found a way to use bloody humor as a nervous grace note to offset what’s tangibly distressing about our gnawing powerlessness.
What Haneul remembers most about his time in the North Korean military is the gnawing, continuous hunger.
Democrats’ task in the next several years, he said, will be to find better ways to speak to and remedy those gnawing concerns.
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