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Definitions for gnawing
ˈnɔ ɪŋgnaw·ing
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gnawingnoun
A sensation of being gnawed
gnawingadjective
severe or intense
Webster Dictionary
Gnawing
of Gnaw
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wanging
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of gnawing in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of gnawing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of gnawing in a Sentence
I don't want to remember, i thank God I stayed alive but what horrors we have seen! So many corpses, dogs were gnawing those corpses. There was so little of it left you couldn't even bury them.
Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville:
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn:
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
These last few days have underscored a lot of evil that is gnawing at our country and challenges we must be equal to, we have to look at all the divisions, the tensions that have been going on for years ... the neglect of the suburbs, the ghettos, the social misery.
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
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