- Types Of Speech
- You can use gnaw as a verb in a sentence.
- About Gnaw
- A 1 syllables verb and 4 letters with the letters a, g, n, and w, 3 consonants, 1 vowels and 1 syllables with the middle letters na. Gnaw starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters g, gn, gna, and the ending characters are w, aw, naw, ..
- Definition
- Become ground down or deteriorate; "Her confidence eroded"
- Origin/Roots
- Old English
- School Grade
- Gnaw is set as a sat word that starts with g, ends with w, 1 syllables, 1 vowels and 4 letters.
- Scrabble
- Is gnaw a scrabble word? A 8 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Gnaw in Pig Latin is said as "awgnay or awgnway".
- Unigram
- g | n | a | w
- Bigram
- gn | na | aw
- Trigram
- gna | naw
- Quadrigram
- gnaw
- Word Gram
- Verb Examples
- become ground down or deteriorate;
"Her confidence eroded" - bite or chew on with the teeth;
"gnaw an old cracker";
"chewed on a cookie"
Synonym | Definition |
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Abate | become less in amount or intensity "The storm abated" "The rain let up after a few hours" |
Ablate | remove an organ or bodily structure |
Abrade | strike against an object "She stubbed her one''s toe in the dark and now it''s broken" |
Abrase | wear away |
Absorb | cause to become one with "The sales tax is absorbed into the state income tax" |
Abstract | a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person" |
Abstraction | a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples |
Afflict | cause bodily suffering to |
Affray | a noisy fight |
Agonise | suffer agony or anguish |
View all cognitive synonyms for Gnaw
Anagram | Definition |
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Gnaw | become ground down or deteriorate "Her confidence eroded" |
View English words with the unique letters used in gnaw. Words With The Letters Agnw
Word | Definition |
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Eating Away | |
Eroding | (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it) |
Erosion | erosion by chemical action |
Wearing | producing exhaustion "an exhausting march" "the visit was especially wearing" |
Wearing Away |
Word | Definition |
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Crumble | fall into decay or ruin "The unoccupied house started to decay" |
Decay | the organic phenomenon of rotting |
Delapidate | fall into decay or ruin "The unoccupied house started to decay" |
Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
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Gnaw (4 letters) | 8 | 10 | gnaw | ||
Wanga (5 letters) | 9 +1 | 11 +1 | wanga |
Gnaw Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With G
- Ends With W
- Spelled With / Contains Letters