My dog likes to gnaw on bones.
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Gnaw
//nɔ//
Synonyms for "gnaw" (121 found)
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9 entriesSynonyms
4 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
9 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
4 entriesTranslations
131 translations across 68 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- bren verb (to bite something persistently)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- τρώγω verb (to bite something persistently)
Arabic
3 entries- قرص verb (to bite something persistently)
- قَضَمَ verb (to bite something persistently)
- نَخَرَ verb (to bite something persistently)
Armenian
1 entries- կրծել verb (to bite something persistently)
Aromanian
1 entries- arod verb (to bite something persistently)
Asturian
3 entries- roer verb (to bite something persistently)
- royer verb (to bite something persistently)
- ñascar verb (to bite something persistently)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- gəmirmək verb (to bite something persistently)
Belarusian
2 entries- глада́ць verb (to bite something persistently)
- гры́зці verb (to bite something persistently)
Breton
1 entries- krignat verb (to bite something persistently)
Bulgarian
4 entries- гло́жда verb (to bite something persistently)
- глождя verb (to produce anxiety or worry)
- гриза́ verb (to bite something persistently)
- терзая verb (to produce anxiety or worry)
Burmese
1 entries- တွပ် verb (to bite something persistently)
Catalan
1 entries- rosegar verb (to bite something persistently)
Cebuano
1 entries- kitkit verb (to bite something persistently)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎠᏍᎪᎩᎠ verb (to bite something persistently)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 咬 verb (to bite something persistently)
- 啃 verb (to bite something persistently)
- 噬 verb (to bite something persistently)
Czech
2 entries- hlodat verb (to bite something persistently)
- hryzat verb (to bite something persistently)
Danish
1 entries- gnave verb (to bite something persistently)
Dutch
1 entries- knagen verb (to bite something persistently)
Esperanto
1 entries- ronĝi verb (to bite something persistently)
Finnish
3 entries- jyrsiä verb (to bite something persistently)
- jäytää verb (to bite something persistently)
- kalvaa verb (to bite something persistently)
French
3 entries- harceler verb (to produce anxiety or worry)
- préoccuper verb (to produce anxiety or worry)
- ronger verb (to bite something persistently)
Friulian
1 entries- roseâ verb (to bite something persistently)
Galician
2 entries- rillar verb (to bite something persistently)
- roer verb (to bite something persistently)
German
4 entries- beschäftigen verb (to produce anxiety or worry)
- kauen verb (to bite something persistently)
- knabbern verb (to bite something persistently)
- nagen verb (to bite something persistently)
Greek
1 entries- ροκανίζω verb (to bite something persistently)
Hebrew
1 entries- כִּרְסֵם verb (to bite something persistently)
Hindi
1 entries- कुतरना verb (to bite something persistently)
Hungarian
1 entries- rág verb (to bite something persistently)
Icelandic
1 entries- naga verb (to bite something persistently)
Italian
4 entries- mordicchiare verb (to bite something persistently)
- rodere verb (to bite something persistently)
- rodere verb (to produce anxiety or worry)
- rosicare verb (to bite something persistently)
Japanese
1 entries- 齧る verb (to bite something persistently)
Kazakh
1 entries- кеміру verb (to bite something persistently)
Khmer
1 entries- កកេរ verb (to bite something persistently)
Korean
2 entries- 물어뜯다 verb (to bite something persistently)
- 쏠다 verb (to bite something persistently)
Latin
1 entries- rōdō verb (to bite something persistently)
Latvian
2 entries- kost verb (to bite something persistently)
- krimst verb (to bite something persistently)
Lithuanian
1 entries- įsikąsti verb (to bite something persistently)
Macedonian
2 entries- глода verb (to bite something persistently)
- гризе verb (to bite something persistently)
Malay
2 entries- kerumit verb (to bite something persistently)
- unggis verb (to bite something persistently)
Mongolian
1 entries- мэрэх verb (to bite something persistently)
Māori
4 entries- kakati verb (to bite something persistently)
- kinikini verb (to produce anxiety or worry)
- kunāwhea verb (to produce anxiety or worry)
- ngau verb (to bite something persistently)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- gnage verb (to bite something persistently)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- gnaga verb (to bite something persistently)
Occitan
1 entries- rosegar verb (to bite something persistently)
Old Church Slavonic
2 entries- грꙑсти verb (to bite something persistently)
- погрꙑсти verb (to bite something persistently)
Old East Slavic
1 entries- грызти verb (to bite something persistently)
Persian
2 entries- خاییدن verb (to bite something persistently)
- خسیدن verb (to bite something persistently)
Piedmontese
1 entries- rusié verb (to bite something persistently)
Polish
2 entries- gryźć verb (to bite something persistently)
- głodać verb (to bite something persistently)
Portuguese
2 entries- morder verb (to bite something persistently)
- roer verb (to bite something persistently)
Rapa Nui
1 entries- ŋauŋau verb (to bite something persistently)
Romanian
1 entries- roade verb (to bite something persistently)
Russian
2 entries- глода́ть verb (to bite something persistently)
- грызть verb (to bite something persistently)
Sardinian
3 entries- arroere verb (to bite something persistently)
- rodere verb (to bite something persistently)
- roere verb (to bite something persistently)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- glodati verb (to bite something persistently)
- gnjaviti verb (to produce anxiety or worry)
- глодати verb (to bite something persistently)
Slovak
2 entries- hlodať verb (to bite something persistently)
- hrýzť verb (to bite something persistently)
Slovene
3 entries- glódati verb (to bite something persistently)
- gristi verb (to bite something persistently)
- poglodati verb (to bite something persistently)
Spanish
4 entries- carcomer verb (to bite something persistently)
- carcomer verb (to produce anxiety or worry)
- chancomer verb (to bite something persistently)
- concomer verb (to produce anxiety or worry)
Swedish
1 entries- gnaga verb (to bite something persistently)
Tagalog
1 entries- ngatngat verb (to bite something persistently)
Thai
1 entries- แทะ verb (to bite something persistently)
Turkish
1 entries- kemirmek verb (to bite something persistently)
Ukrainian
2 entries- глода́ти verb (to bite something persistently)
- гри́зти verb (to bite something persistently)
Upper Sorbian
2 entries- hryzać verb (to bite something persistently)
- hłodać verb (to bite something persistently)
Uzbek
2 entries- gʻajimoq verb (to bite something persistently)
- kemirmoq verb (to bite something persistently)
Vietnamese
2 entries- cắn verb (to bite something persistently)
- nhằn verb (to bite something persistently)
Welsh
3 entries- cnoi verb (to bite something persistently)
- cnoi verb (to produce anxiety or worry)
- dwysbigo verb (to produce anxiety or worry)
Zazaki
1 entries- koçen verb (to bite something persistently)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
"But ne'er the town, by Destiny assigned, / your walls shall gird, till famine's pangs constrain / to gnaw your boards, in quittance for our slain."
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Don't gnaw your nails!
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Concern had started to gnaw at his insides.
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