Gnawed is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GNAWED in dictionary:

VERB:
• GNAW, to wear away by persistent biting
• bite at or nibble something persistently
• bite at or nibble (something) so as to wear it away
• cause persistent distress or anxiety

Words related to GNAWED

gnaw8 gnawing12 gnawn9 gnaws9

Words that contain GNAWED

begnawed15 outgnawed14

How to use GNAWED in a sentence

• Two of them, however, had gnawed off their paws and left them lying in the traps.
• Perhaps the rats that devoured his bread had gnawed him before life was extinct.
• Wherever Time has gnawed one of the stones, you see the mark of his tooth just as plainly in the sunken reflection.
• The stupid brutes of guards were rats, and they gnawed the intelligence of me, gnawed all the fine nerves of the quick of me and of the consciousness of me.
• But the rate clerk was a stolid, a suspicious person, and he was gnawed by a low and common jealousy.
• He had a certain ecstasy in the pain when she gnawed at the cuticle of his nails with a sharp knife.
• Dreading the supper hour, dreading the sound of steps upon the walk, Garry smoked and gnawed his lips.
• He gnawed his beard, and a flush of something like shame settled on his cheek.
• The beaver have committed great devastation among the trees, one of which, nearly three feet in diameter, has been gnawed through by them.
• But in every other direction there was nothing but sand billows, all scooped out on their northwest sides where the fierce winds of winter had gnawed at them.
• And yet the heart of either is gnawed by a secret worm.
• When he had done, the remains of the head were cut in pieces, and given to the attendants, who tore off the meat with their teeth, and gnawed the bones like so many dogs.
• Ned saw an oak tree two feet in diameter gnawed down by musket balls.
• Now the towering walls of ice and snow were broken by rocky teeth as if they had bitten deep upon this land, only to be gnawed in return.
• It was as if the head had been gnawed from the trunk, but the head itself was missing.
• I have myself seen an instance of this, in which the tiger was not only ripped to death, but had his chest-bone gnawed and crushed, evidently after life was extinct.
• There were no traces of hoarding in any of the holes, but the soft bark of the trees was a good deal gnawed in places.
• Having finished reading his paper, he gnawed his moustache and gazed, still with glaring unconsciousness of my presence, out of the window.
• She gnawed wedges with her teeth and with them wedged the lashing.
• But the rough wall of wax has in every case to be finished off, by being largely gnawed away on both sides.
• Like a fine fruit with a worm at the core, a single thought gnawed her heart.
• They gnawed and bit with ceaseless toil, And from the roots they tossed the soil.
• This person bored a hole in it, and sent down some men who gnawed out the whole interior, leaving the rock a mere shell.
• Gates and posts and rails have been gnawed to bits, and in one instance a litter of young pigs were worried during the night.
• He shuddered when he thought of the remorse which must have gnawed his soul during the rest of his lifetime if Pelham had been drowned.

Similar words containing GNAW without suffix ed

gnaw8 gnawn9 gnaws9 begnaw12 gnawer10 begnaws13 gnawers11 gnawing12 outgnaw11 begnawed15 gnawable14 gnawings13 outgnawn12 outgnaws12 begnawing16 gnawingly17 outgnawed14 outgnawing15

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