All gnaw synonyms

verb gnaw

• bite — If you bite something, you use your teeth to cut into it, for example in order to eat it or break it. If an animal or person bites you, they use their teeth to hurt or injure you.
• nibble — to bite off small bits.
• eat — to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
• chomp — If a person or animal chomps their way through food or chomps on food, they chew it noisily.
• annoy — If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
• bedevil — If you are bedevilled by something unpleasant, it causes you a lot of problems over a period of time.
• nag — to annoy by persistent faultfinding, complaints, or demands.
• irritate — to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
• haunt — to visit habitually or appear to frequently as a spirit or ghost: to haunt a house; to haunt a person.
• crunch — If you crunch something hard, such as a sweet, you crush it noisily between your teeth.
• consume — If you consume something, you eat or drink it.
• munch — Charles, 1891–1968, French conductor in the U.S.
• gum — Often, gums. Also called gingiva. the firm, fleshy tissue covering the alveolar parts of either jaw and enveloping the necks of the teeth.
• corrode — If metal or stone corrodes, or is corroded, it is gradually destroyed by a chemical or by rust.
• devour — If a person or animal devours something, they eat it quickly and eagerly.
• masticate — Chew (food).
• wear — to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like: to wear a coat; to wear a saber; to wear a disguise.
• champ — A champ is the same as a champion.
• chaw — to chew (tobacco), esp without swallowing it
• distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• tease — to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
• pester — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
• harass — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
• plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
• rankle — (of unpleasant feelings, experiences, etc.) to continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind; fester; be painful.
• harry — to harass, annoy, or prove a nuisance to by or as if by repeated attacks; worry: He was harried by constant doubts.
• trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
• fret — to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help.
• wear down — to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like: to wear a coat; to wear a saber; to wear a disguise.
• worry — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
• bother — If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
• concern — Concern is worry about a situation.
• aggravate — If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.
• chew — When you chew food, you use your teeth to break it up in your mouth so that it becomes easier to swallow.
• erode — (of wind, water, or other natural agents) Gradually wear away (soil, rock, or land).