transcription, транскрипция: [ nɔ: ]
( gnaws, gnawing, gnawed)
1.
If people or animals gnaw something or gnaw at it, they bite it repeatedly.
Woodlice attack living plants and gnaw at the stems...
Melanie gnawed a long, painted fingernail.
= chew
VERB : V at/on n , V n
2.
If a feeling or thought gnaws at you, it causes you to keep worrying. ( WRITTEN )
Doubts were already gnawing away at the back of his mind...
Mary Ann’s exhilaration gave way to gnawing fear.
= nag
VERB : V at n , V-ing