gnaw
Speech parts
1. gnaw - Noun
2. gnaw - Verb
Meaning
To bite, as something hard or tough, which is not readily separated or crushed; to bite off little by little, with effort; to wear or eat away by scraping or continuous biting with the teeth; to nibble at.
To bite in agony or rage.
To use the teeth in biting; to bite with repeated effort, as in eating or removing with the teethsomething hard, unwiedly, or unmanageable.
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Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
He who is late may gnaw the bones.
It is better to hear the nightingale sing than the mouse gnaw.
In time a mouse will gnaw through a cable.