Crossword-Solution: GNAWS 5 letters, 61 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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GNAWS anagram SWANG, WANGS

We have 61 clues for the answer “GNAWS”

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Nibbles (on) 1 answer
Chews on a bone 1 answer
Chews upon. 1 answer
Chews, as on a bone 1 answer
Doesn't eat politely 1 answer
Eats like a beaver 1 answer
Eats like a rodent 1 answer
Eats like a squirrel 1 answer
Emulates a beaver 1 answer
Goes at like a beaver 1 answer
Imitates a beaver 1 answer
Irritates, with "at" 1 answer
Makes holes like a mouse 1 answer
Makes like a rodent 1 answer
Mimics a mouse 1 answer
Munches like mice 1 answer
Chews like beavers 1 answer
Plagues, with "at" 1 answer
Really bothers, with "at" 1 answer
Uses one's incisors 1 answer
Vexes, with "at" 1 answer
Wears away by nibbling 1 answer
Wears down, in a way 1 answer
Wears with the mouth 1 answer
What hunger does. 1 answer
Works on as a bone 1 answer
Works on a bone 1 answer
Works on at the table, in a way 1 answer
Works over a bone 1 answer
Works the choppers 1 answer
__ at (bothers) 1 answer
Chews like a squirrel 1 answer
Acts like a beaver 1 answer
Acts like a mouse 1 answer
Acts the rodent 1 answer
Affects a worrier 1 answer
Annoys, with "at" 1 answer
Behaves like a beaver 1 answer
Bites like a beaver 1 answer
Bites persistently 1 answer
Bites to bits 1 answer
Chews (at) 1 answer
Chews away (at) 1 answer
Chews like a beaver 1 answer
Chews like a chipmunk 1 answer
Chews like a dog with a bone 1 answer
Chews like a mouse 1 answer
Chews like a rodent 1 answer
Chewed through 1 answer
Chews like a rat 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GNAWS (5)

Methinks you are about to commit an act like that of the porcupine, who climbs a tree, balances himself upon a springy bough, and then gnaws off the very bough upon which he is sitting; hence, when it gives way, he falls upon the sharp rocks below.
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman 2008
Let us feed that hunger for the heroic which gnaws at the imagination of every boy and of more girls than is generally admitted.
How to Tell Stories to Children Sara Cone Bryant 2005
More than once, it is true, he had been heard to say, clutching his hands convulsively upon his breast,—“It gnaws me! It gnaws me!”—but, by different auditors, a great diversity of explanation was assigned to this ominous expression.
Mosses from an Old Manse Nathaniel Hawthorne 1996
Yet 'tis fate Thou should'st subdue thy kinsman: share the world With him thou canst not; rule thou canst, alone." As when at Elis' festival a horse In stable pent gnaws at his prison bars Impatient, and should clamour from without Strike on his ear, bounds furious at restraint, So then was Caesar, eager for the fight, Stirred by the words of Curio.
Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars Lucan 1996
XLI "Thought which now makes me burn, now freeze with hate, Which gnaws my heart and rankles at its root! What's left to me," he said, "arrived too late, While one more favoured bears away the fruit? Bare words and looks scarce cheered my hopeless state, And the prime spoils reward another's suit.
Orlando Furioso Lodovico Ariosto 1996

Quotes with GNAWS (3)

When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker downin tall grasses, and even elephantslumber after safety. When great trees fallin forests, small things recoil into silence, their senseseroded beyond fear. When great souls die, the air around us becomeslight, rare, sterile. We breathe, briefly. Our eyes, briefly, see witha hurtful clarity. Our memory, suddenly sharpened, examines, gnaws on kind wordsunsaid, promised walksnever taken.…
Maya Angelou
This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.
J. R. R. Tolkien The Hobbit
It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day-A sunny day with the leaves just turning, The touch-lines new-ruled - since I watched you play Your first game of fotball, then, like a satellite Wrenched from its orbit, go drifting away Behind a scatter of boys. I can see You walking away from me towards the schoolwith the pathos of a half-fledged thing set free Into a wilderness, the gait of one Who finds no path where the path should be. That hesitant figure, eddying away Like a…
Cecil Day-Lewis
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 79 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).